Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: Islam, the Usa, and the Global War on Terror
By Mahmood Mamdani.
Description
In this brilliant look at the rise of political Islam, the distinguished political scientist and anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani dispels the notion of good (secular and Westernized) Muslims as against bad (premodern, fanatic) Muslims. He argues that such judgements emerge out of politics rather than from cultural or religious identity. Mamdani shows how political Islam emerged from a modern encounter with Western power, and how the terrorist movement within it arose out of the USA s post-Vietnam proxy wars. His analysis ranges from the 1960s to the Reaganite Thatcherite 1970s, when a simplis...
ISBN(s)
8178241110, 9788178241111
