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

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

First edition.

0375422854

New York : Pantheon Books, 2004.

English

xii, 304 pages ; 22 cm

E840 .M346 2004

320.5/57

"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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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