Bibliograph

Good Muslim, bad Muslim, America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror, Mahmood Mamdani

Type

Label

Good Muslim, bad Muslim, America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror, Mahmood Mamdani

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Good Muslim, bad Muslim

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

53315228

Responsibility statement

Mahmood Mamdani

Sub title

America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror

Summary

"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 ... Argues that political Islam 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"--jacket

Table Of Contents

Modernity and violence -- Culture talk, or How not to talk about Islam and politics -- The Cold War after Indochina -- Afghanistan : the high point in the Cold War -- From proxy wars to open aggression -- Beyond impunity and collective punishment

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