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Good Muslim, bad Muslim : America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror / Mahmood Mamdani.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Three Leaves Press, c2004.Edition: 1st Three Leaves Press edDescription: xii, 304 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0385515375
  • 9780385515375
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.5'57
LOC classification:
  • E840 .M346 2004
Other classification:
  • 89.58
Contents:
Modernity and violence -- Culture talk, or How not to talk about Islam and politics -- The Cold War after Indochina -- Afghanistan : the high point in the Cold War -- From proxy wars to open aggression -- Beyond impunity and collective punishment.
Summary: "Dispels the idea of 'good' (secular, westernized) and 'bad' (premodern, fanatical) Muslims, pointing out that these judgments refer to political rather than cultural or religious identities ... Argues that political Islam emerged as the result of a modern encounter with Western power, and that the terrorist movement at the center of Islamist politics is an even more recent phenomenon, one that followed America's embrace of proxy war after its defeat in Vietnam"--jacket.
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Books Books JST Library <strong>Bindery:<br>This book is in the Bindery with the Librarian's Assistant.</strong> E<br>History of the Americas E 840 MAM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 101441
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"Good Muslim, bad Muslim was originally published in hardcover by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2004" (verso t.p.).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Modernity and violence -- Culture talk, or How not to talk about Islam and politics -- The Cold War after Indochina -- Afghanistan : the high point in the Cold War -- From proxy wars to open aggression -- Beyond impunity and collective punishment.

"Dispels the idea of 'good' (secular, westernized) and 'bad' (premodern, fanatical) Muslims, pointing out that these judgments refer to political rather than cultural or religious identities ... Argues that political Islam emerged as the result of a modern encounter with Western power, and that the terrorist movement at the center of Islamist politics is an even more recent phenomenon, one that followed America's embrace of proxy war after its defeat in Vietnam"--jacket.

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