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Islam Through Western Eyes: From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism
Jonathan Lyons
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Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1QFM; HBJF1; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 236 x 23. Weight in Grams: 498. From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism. 272 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1QFM; HBJF1; JFSR2. Dimension: 165 x 236 x 23. Weight: 498.
Despite the West's growing involvement in Muslim societies, conflicts, and cultures, its inability to understand or analyze the Islamic world threatens any prospect for East-West rapprochement. Impelled by one thousand years of anti-Muslim ideas and images, the West has failed to engage in any meaningful or productive way with the world of Islam. Formulated in the medieval halls of the Roman Curia and courts of the European Crusaders and perfected in the newsrooms of Fox News and CNN, this anti-Islamic discourse determines what can and cannot be said about Muslims and their religion, trapping the West in a dangerous, dead-end ... Read more
Despite the West's growing involvement in Muslim societies, conflicts, and cultures, its inability to understand or analyze the Islamic world threatens any prospect for East-West rapprochement. Impelled by one thousand years of anti-Muslim ideas and images, the West has failed to engage in any meaningful or productive way with the world of Islam. Formulated in the medieval halls of the Roman Curia and courts of the European Crusaders and perfected in the newsrooms of Fox News and CNN, this anti-Islamic discourse determines what can and cannot be said about Muslims and their religion, trapping the West in a dangerous, dead-end ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231158947
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V9780231158947
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About Jonathan Lyons
Jonathan Lyons spent twenty years as a foreign correspondent and editor for Reuters, much of it in the Islamic world. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Monash University and lives in Portland, Oregon. His publications include The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization and (with Geneive Abdo) Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Twenty-First-Century ... Read more
Reviews for Islam Through Western Eyes: From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism
A useful corrective to the powerful voices of those who intersperse claims of Islam's innate bloodthirstiness with advocacy for suppression of the rights of Muslims at home and abroad. Publishers Weekly Lyons takes a chisel to the ancient and venerable edifice that is the anti-Islam discourse and patiently chips away, hoping to demolish what he considers the chief obstacle obscuring ... Read more