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Challenging the new orientalism : dissenting essays on the "War against Islam" / M. Shahid Alam

Author
Alam, M. Shahid (Mohammad Shahid), 1950-
Published
North Haledon, NJ : Islamic Publications International, [2006]
Copyright Date
©2006
Physical Description
xxii, 248 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents
Contents -- Preface -- Section 1. The new orientalism -- Bernard Lewis: scholarship or sophistry? -- A clash of civilizations? Nonsense -- The war against global terrorism -- Is there an Islamic problem? -- How different are Islamicate societies? -- Islam: an interview -- Section 2. Palestine and Israel -- A colonizing project built on lies -- Academic boycott of Israel -- Crossing the line -- Israel's proxy war -- Illuminating Thomas Friedman -- Lerner, Said and the Palestinians -- Elie Wiesel: on being good victims -- Recognizing Israel: or selling out -- Another wall -- Voiding the Palestinians: an allegory -- Section 3. War against global terrorism -- A history of September 11 -- A day that changed America? -- Why 9-11 and why now? -- Dialectics of terror -- Race and visibility -- Iraq is free -- Semantics of empire -- America imagine this -- The Islamic resistance -- Testing free speech in America -- Real men go to Tehran -- The Muslims America loves -- Author index -- Subject index.
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ISBN
1889999458 (pbk.)
9781889999456 (pbk.)
1889999466 (hardback)
9781889999463 (hardback)
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Previously published as: Is there an Islamic problem? (Kuala Lumpur : The Other Press, 2004.)
Source of Acquisition
UP-PAT copy: Purchased with funds from the Class of 1984 Endowed Book Fund; 20067.
Endowment Note
Class of 1984 Endowed Book Fund
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