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A Fury For God: The Islamist Attack On America by Malise Ruthven (Paperback, 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 first reconstructs the events of September 11 and the war in Afghanistan. He traces the changing 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. And in a challenging analysis, the author 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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Publisher
Granta Books
ISBN-13
9781862075733
eBay Product ID (ePID)
87867715

Product Key Features

Subject Area
Social Organisations
Author
Malise Ruthven
Publication Name
A Fury for God: the Islamist Attack on America
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Government
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
346 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
270g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Malise Ruthven
Topic
Islam
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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