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Islam and the Myth of Confrontation

Religion and Politics in the Middle East

The collapse of communism and the rise of militant Islamic movements in the Middle East, raised the specter of a future dominated by the conflict between "Islam" and "the West". September 11 has only branded that notion onto the world’s consciousness. In this up-to-date edition of Halliday's classic text, he sets out to reject these interpretations. Considering the sources of Islamic militancy and analyzing the confrontational rhetoric of both Islamic and anti-Muslim demagogues, he provides an alternative, critical but cautious, reassessment.

Equally they would point to the importance of transnational ideologies - Arab
nationalism, Islam, Third World assertion - in the conflict, and of the growing
communality of interest of the developed countries who acted to defend what they
saw as an international interest. For many ... the Western states in colonial times.
29 This would bear out Thomas Kuhn's observation that any decent paradigm,
any 'historically significant' theory, can 'more or less' provide an explanation. Yet
there are ...