Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2005
- ISBN
- 9780385515375
- Book Title
- Good Muslim, Bad Muslim : America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror
- Publisher
- Potter/Ten SPEED/Harmony/Rodale
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Author
- Mahmood. Mamdani
- Genre
- Religion, Political Science, Social Science, History
- Topic
- Islamic Studies, Terrorism, International Relations / General, Islam / General, United States / 21st Century, Religion, Politics & State, Criminology
- Item Weight
- 10.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
- Country of Origin
- United States
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Potter/Ten SPEED/Harmony/Rodale
ISBN-10
0385515375
ISBN-13
9780385515375
eBay Product ID (ePID)
43742555
Product Key Features
Book Title
Good Muslim, Bad Muslim : America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Islamic Studies, Terrorism, International Relations / General, Islam / General, United States / 21st Century, Religion, Politics & State, Criminology
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Religion, Political Science, Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
10.6 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-063965
Reviews
“Mamdani strips open the lies, stereotypes, and easy generalizations on which U.S. policy toward the Muslim world is founded. Dismaying but essential reading.” -J. M. Coetzee “This provocative and thoughtful inquiry raises hard and serious questions. It is a valuable contribution to the understanding of some of the most important developments in the contemporary era.” -Noam Chomsky “Good Muslim, Bad Muslimis a brief, readable plea to Americans to stop listening to the shuck and jive about a ‘clash of civilizations’ and start learning some practical political history.” -The Village Voice, “Mamdani strips open the lies, stereotypes, and easy generalizations on which U.S. policy toward the Muslim world is founded. Dismaying but essential reading.” -J. M. Coetzee “This provocative and thoughtful inquiry raises hard and serious questions. It is a valuable contribution to the understanding of some of the most important developments in the contemporary era.” -Noam Chomsky ” Good Muslim, Bad Muslim is a brief, readable plea to Americans to stop listening to the shuck and jive about a ‘clash of civilizations’ and start learning some practical political history.” – The Village Voice, ” Mamdani strips open the lies, stereotypes, and easy generalizations on which U.S. policy toward the Muslim world is founded. Dismaying but essential reading.” — J. M. Coetzee ” This provocative and thoughtful inquiry raises hard and serious questions. It is a valuable contribution to the understanding of some of the most important developments in the contemporary era.” — Noam Chomsky ” “Good Muslim, Bad Muslim” is a brief, readable plea to Americans to stop listening to the shuck and jive about a ‘ clash of civilizations’ and start learning some practical political history.” — “The Village Voice “, “Mamdani strips open the lies, stereotypes, and easy generalizations on which U.S. policy toward the Muslim world is founded. Dismaying but essential reading.” -J. M. Coetzee “This provocative and thoughtful inquiry raises hard and serious questions. It is a valuable contribution to the understanding of some of the most important developments in the contemporary era.” -Noam Chomsky “Good Muslim, Bad Muslim is a brief, readable plea to Americans to stop listening to the shuck and jive about a ‘clash of civilizations’ and start learning some practical political history.” -The Village Voice, “Mamdani strips open the lies, stereotypes, and easy generalizations on which U.S. policy toward the Muslim world is founded. Dismaying but essential reading.” –J. M. Coetzee “This provocative and thoughtful inquiry raises hard and serious questions. It is a valuable contribution to the understanding of some of the most important developments in the contemporary era.” –Noam Chomsky ” Good Muslim, Bad Muslim is a brief, readable plea to Americans to stop listening to the shuck and jive about a ‘clash of civilizations’ and start learning some practical political history.” — The Village Voice
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
327.73
Synopsis
Distinguished political scientist and anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani, father of New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, offers an “exceptionally clear [and] especially shocking” ( San Francisco Chronicle ) examination of political Islam, the factors that led to 9/11, and the global repercussions on Muslims everywhere. “This provocative and thoughtful inquiry is a valuable contribution to the understanding of some of the most important developments in the contemporary era.”–Noam Chomsky In Good Muslim, Bad Muslim , Mahmood Mamdani brings his expertise and insight to a question many Americans have been asking since 9/11: how did this happen? Mamdani 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. The presumption that there are “good” Muslims readily available to be split off from “bad” Muslims masks a failure to make a political analysis of our times. Political Islam, Mamdani argues, 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. He writes with great insight about the Reagan years, showing America’s embrace of the highly ideological politics of “good” against “evil.” Identifying militant nationalist governments as Soviet proxies in countries such as Nicaragua and Afghanistan, the Reagan administration readily backed terrorist movements, hailing them as the “moral equivalents” of America’s Founding Fathers. The era of proxy wars came to an end with the invasion of Iraq, where, as in Vietnam, America was not fighting terrorism but nationalism, a battle that cannot be won by occupation. Good Muslim, Bad Muslim is a provocative and important book that will profoundly change our understanding both of Islamist politics and the way America is perceived in the world today., In this brilliant look at the rise of political Islam, the distinguished political scientist and anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani brings his expertise and insight to bear on a question many Americans have been asking since 9/11: how did this happen?” Good Muslim, Bad Muslim” is a provocative and important book that will profoundly change our understanding both of Islamist politics and the way America is perceived in the world today., Distinguished political scientist and anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani, father of New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, offers an “exceptionally clear [and] especially shocking” ( San Francisco Chronicle ) examination of political Islam, the factors that led to 9/11, and the global repercussions on Muslims everywhere. “This provocative and thoughtful inquiry is a valuable contribution to the understanding of some of the most important developments in the contemporary era.”–Noam Chomsky In Good Muslim, Bad Muslim , Mahmood Mamdani brings his expertise and insight to a question many Americans have been asking since 9/11: how did this happen? Mamdani 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. The presumption that there are “good” Muslims readily available to be split off from “bad” Muslims masks a failure to make a political analysis of our times. Political Islam, Mamdani argues, 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. He writes with great insight about the Reagan years, showing America’s embrace of the highly ideological politics of “good” against “evil.” Identifying militant nationalist governments as Soviet proxies in countries such as Nicaragua and Afghanistan, the Reagan administration readily backed terrorist movements, hailing them as the “moral equivalents” of America’s Founding Fathers. The era of proxy wars came to an end with the invasion of Iraq, where, as in Vietnam, America was not fighting terrorism but nationalism, a battle that cannot be won by occupation. Good Muslim, Bad Muslim is a provocative and important book that will profoundly change our understanding both of Islamist politics and the way America is perceived in the world today.
LC Classification Number
E840.M346 2004
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