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A Fury For God: The Islamist Attack On America - Softcover

Ruthven, Malise

 
9781862075733: A Fury For God: The Islamist Attack On America
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1862075735 ISBN 13: 9781862075733
Verlag: Granta Publications, 2004

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The terrorist attacks on New York and Washington were carried out by men steeped in a certain Islamic ideology, which has come to be called Islamism. In A Fury for God, Malise Ruthven reconstructs the events of 11 September and the war in Afghanistan and traces the role of the idea of 'jihad' and examines the permissibility of suicide in Islam. He reconstructs the world-view of Islamist intellectuals like Sayyid Qutb, the Egyptian thinker who has influenced an entire generation of radicals in the Arab world, notably Osama bin Laden. Ruthven highlights their obsessive attention to sexual matters. He also shows that it would be a mistake to treat these people as medieval fanatics: their attitude to modernity is dangerous and ambivalent. The author also exposes the crucial importance of the Saudi connection, the massive sponsorship of 'fundamentalism' by an authoritarian tribal regime that has been tolerated by the international community for the sake of Western economic stability. Ruthven's identification of the ambiguities in Western policy is powerfully provocative.

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Verlag
Granta Publications
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1862075735
ISBN 13 
9781862075733
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
346
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