| Description |
x, 342 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I: Mullahs and heretics. An atheist childhood -- The origins of Islam -- The empire of the world -- Jerusalem, Jerusalem -- Ottomanism -- The joys of heresy -- Women versus the eternal machine -- Part II: One hundred years of servitude. A spring memory -- The roots of Wahhabism -- The kingdom of corruption -- Zionism, the first oil war, resistance -- Marginal notes on the chapter of defeats -- The anti-imperialism of fools -- An ocean of terror -- Part III: The nuclear wastelands of South Asia. The case of Anwar Shaikh -- Plain tales from Pakistan -- Afghanistan: between hammer and anvil -- The story of Kashmir -- Part IV: A clash of fundamentalism. A short-course history of US imperialism -- September surprise -- Letter to a young Muslim -- Appendix: On the Arab-Israeli war. |
| Subject |
Islamic fundamentalism.
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World politics -- 20th century.
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| ISBN |
1859846793 |
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