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Title

Islam : between globalization & counter-terrorism / Ali A. Mazrui ; edited by Shalahudin Kafrawi, Alamin M. Mazrui, Ruzima Sebuharara.

Author

Mazrui, Ali AlʼAmin

Publication

Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors

• Kafrawi, Shalahudin, 1969-
• Mazrui, Alamin M.
• Sebuharara, Ruzima.

Description

xxii, 331 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Islam in this twenty-first century is caught up in a vortex of three inter-related forces – globalization, international terrorism, and the rise of the American Empire. Mazrui examines those forces from the perspective of the rise and fall of civilizations, ranging from the creation of the state of Israel to the aftermath of September 11. – back cover.

Subject

• Globalization > Islam
• Islam and world politics
• Terrorism > Islam
• Islamic renewal
• Terrorism > Islamic countries > Prevention
• Islamic countries > Politics and government

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• SECTION ONE: Norh-South: The political divide -- The imperial culture of North-South relations: The case of Islam and the west -- The global hostage crisis: The south between underdevelopment & counter-terrorism -- The third world and international terrorism -- Globalization between the market and the military: A third world perspective
• SECTION TWO: Occident-Orient: The cultural divide -- Has a clash of civilization begun?: From the cold war of ideology to a hot war of religion -- Pax Islamica: Muslim values between war and peace -- Terrorism and the global image of Islam: Power, passion and piety -- The truth between terror and tyranny: The United States, Israel and Hegemonic Globalization -- Comparative terror from Shaka to Sharon: Revolutionary, racial, religious and state violence -- The nuclear option and international justice: Islamic perspectives
• SECTION THREE: Domestic-international: The "Global" divide -- The black experience and the American empire: Between globalization and counter-terrorism -- Black Intifadah: The Mau Mau uprising and the Palestinian resistance in comparative perspective -- Africa and Islam in the aftermath of September 11: Between hope and peril
• SECTION FOUR: Towards a marriage of civilizations -- Islam between Christian Allies and Western adversaries: A new re-alignment? -- Islamic and Western value -- Globalization, Islam and the West: Between Homogenization and Hegemonization -- The United Nations and the Muslim World: Allies and Adversaries? -- A cultural betrothal?: Euro-American norms and Islamic values.
• Faculty collection -- Shalahudin Kafrawi, Prof. Philosophy Dept.

ISBN

• 1592213251 (hardcover)
• 159221326X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2004024911

OCLC

• 56840727
• SCSB-12141445

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library