Good Muslim, bad Muslim : America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror /
"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 Wes...
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Pantheon Books
2004
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Good Muslim, bad Muslim : |b America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror / |c Mahmood Mamdani |
| 250 | |a 1st ed | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Pantheon Books |c 2004 | ||
| 300 | |a xii, 304 p. ; |c 22 cm | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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 | |
| 520 | |a "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 | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Islam and politics |x History |y 20th century | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Terrorism |x Political aspects |x History |y 20th century | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Drug traffic |x Political aspects |x History |y 20th century | |
| 650 | 0 | |a September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 |x Causes | |
| 651 | 0 | |a United States |x Foreign relations |y 1945-1989 | |
| 651 | 0 | |a United States |x Foreign relations |z Afghanistan | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Afghanistan |x Foreign relations |z United States | |
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