About this title: Since 2001, two dominant worldviews have clashed in the global arena: a neoconservative nightmare of an insidious Islamic terrorist threat to civilized life, and a jihadist myth of martyrdom through the slaughter of infidels. Across the airwaves and on the ground, an ill-defined and uncontrollable war has raged between these two opposing scenarios. Deadly images and threats - from the televised beheading of Western hostages to graphic pictures of tortured prisoners at Abu Ghraib, from the destruction wrought by suicide bombers in London and Madrid to civilian deaths at the hands of American ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Belknap Pr
Date Published: 2008-11-15
ISBN-13:9780674031388ISBN:0674031385
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Belknap Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780674031388ISBN:0674031385
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780674031388ISBN:0674031385
Description: Kepel urges both the West and the Middle East to escape the ideological quagmire of terrorism and martyrdom and explore the terms of a new and constructive dialogue--one for which Europe, with its expanding and restless Muslim populations, may be the... read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780674031388ISBN:0674031385
Description: New. Urges readers to escape the ideological quagmire of terrorism and martyrdom and explore the terms of a constructive dialogue between Islam and the West, one for which Europe, with its expanding and restless Muslim populations, may be the proving ground. read more
"I recommend this book. I read the first few chapters which gave me an excellent overview of the history of terrorism in the Middle East. I didn't finish because I wasn't interested in the details."
"Beyond Terror and Martyrdom offers an intelligent, compact analysis of the debacle in the Middle East. If you have a hard time keeping track of the differences between Shia and Sunni or Zarqawi and Zawahiri (who doesn't?), Kepel proves an excellent guide to the confusing landscape of Islamic and Western ideologies and their associated developments. His concise overview alone is worth the price of the book.
In addition, Kepel demonstrates that the grand narratives of Bush's "war on terror" and bin Laden's jihad against the West have both collapsed - the reality of the situation, from Israel to Pakistan, or from Washington to Europe, is far more complex. He also provides the best overview of the checkered fate of "multiculturalism" in the West - developing the main insight from Ian Buruma's Murder in Amsterdam: specifically (my simplification) that assimilation and inclusion offers the best hope for everyone - both within a specific society, as well as at the level of the global economy."
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