Good Muslim, bad Muslim : America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror / Mahmood Mamdani.
2004
E840 .M346 2004 (Mapit)
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Title
Good Muslim, bad Muslim : America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror / Mahmood Mamdani.
Author
Mamdani, Mahmood, 1946-
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0375422854
Imprint
New York : Pantheon Books 2004.
Language
English
Description
xii, 304 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
E840 .M346 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification
320.5/57
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of 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.
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.