Praise for Jihad: From Qu'ran to Bin Laden:
"Such books would help our efforts aimed at clearing away
misunderstanding about Islam especially the Jihad by the Western
World." -- Muhammad Ijaz-ul-Haq, Minister for Religious Affairs,
Pakistan
After 9/11 the US response to Al-Qaeda -- the global "war on
terror" -- was heavily influenced by the "clash of civilizations"
theory. First introduced by Bernard Lewis in 1990 in an article
entitled "The Roots of Muslim Rage," this theory was taken up by
Samuel Huntington in his famous book The Clash of Civilizations:
Remaking of World Order in 1993. After the end of the cold war,
global conflict will not be economic or ideological but cultural
and religious. "The clash of civilizations," Huntington wrote,
"will dominate global politics. The fault lines between
civilizations will be the battle lines of the future."
This theory of global conflict proved enormously influential
with neoconservatives in the United States and heavily influenced
contemporary US and UK policy. Richard Bonney's controversial new
book takes as its subject Huntington's "clash of civilizations"
thesis and looks at the history of this so-called struggle of
civilizations before it came to precedence in the twenty-first
century. It identifies the twenty-first century proponents of the
thesis, such as Bernard Lewis and Daniel Pipes, their links to the
Bush government and their roles in exploiting this tradition of
hostility between the West and Islam.
Richard Bonney was a professor of modern history at the
University of Leicester. He has published, amongst other titles,
Jihad: From Qu'ran to Bin Laden. He has worked for more than ten
years in Leicester towardsenhancing religious and cultural harmony
while respecting diversity.
Table of Contents Preface Introduction: Are We Fighting World
War IV Against Islamo-Fascism? The Context of the Clash Revisiting
Huntington's 'Clash of Civilizations' Thesis Post-9/11 'Bring Them
Freedom or They Destroy Us': Bernard Lewis and the Evolution of the
'Lewis Doctrine' Elijah's Mantle: The Inherited Struggle of Daniel
Pipes The Real American Special Relationship: Israel's Interests
and the Influence of the American Jewish Lobby 'Rapture', the
Theo-cons, and the Christian Right in US Politics Regime Change?
Assertive Nationalism Captures the White House Post-9/11 'Making
the World Safer and Better'? Iraq and the Moral Arguments
Concerning Preventive War 'We Don't Do Nation-Building': Towards a
Jus Post Bellum for Iraq and Other Cases of Intervention Towards
'Eurabia' or the Co-Habitation of Civilizations? Conclusion: Demise
of the False Prophets? Dramatis Personae Bibliography Notes
Index
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