Confronting Political Islam : : Six Lessons from the West's Past / / John M. Owen.

Political Islam has often been compared to ideological movements of the past such as fascism or Christian theocracy. But are such analogies valid? How should the Western world today respond to the challenges of political Islam? Taking an original approach to answer this question, Confronting Politic...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 4 line illus. 6 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS. TABLES
  • PREFACE
  • Introduction. It Did Happen Here
  • Lesson 1. Don't Sell Islamism Short
  • Lesson 2. Ideologies Are (Usually) Not Monolithic
  • Lesson 3. Foreign Interventions Are Normal
  • Lesson 4. A State May Be Rational and Ideological at the Same Time
  • Lesson 5. The Winner May Be "None of the Above"
  • Lesson 6. Watch Turkey and Iran
  • Conclusion. What to Do and What Not to Do
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX