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The Crisis of Islamic Civilization
Ali A. Allawi
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Islam as a religion is central to the lives of over a billion people, but its outer expression as a distinctive civilization has been undergoing a monumental crisis. Buffeted by powerful adverse currents, Islamic civilization today is a shadow of its former self. The most disturbing and possibly fatal of these currents - the imperial expansion of the West into Muslim lands and the blast of modernity that accompanied it - are now compounded by a third giant wave, globalization. These forces have increasingly tested Islam and Islamic civilization for validity, adaptability, and the ability to hold on to the ... Read more
Islam as a religion is central to the lives of over a billion people, but its outer expression as a distinctive civilization has been undergoing a monumental crisis. Buffeted by powerful adverse currents, Islamic civilization today is a shadow of its former self. The most disturbing and possibly fatal of these currents - the imperial expansion of the West into Muslim lands and the blast of modernity that accompanied it - are now compounded by a third giant wave, globalization. These forces have increasingly tested Islam and Islamic civilization for validity, adaptability, and the ability to hold on to the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300139310
SKU
9780300139310
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About Ali A. Allawi
Ali Allawi has served as Minister of Defence and Minister of Finance in the Iraqi postwar governments. He is senior visiting fellow at Princeton University, and the author of The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace, also published by Yale University Press.
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