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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"maff" |
| Date: |
14 Oct 2004 03:00:47 PM |
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The new with the old |
The new with the old
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3285845
Oct 14th 2004
From The Economist print edition
How Muslim fundamentalism has a thoroughly modern streak
MAYBE it is a by-product of academic Marxism, or it may go right back
to the scholastic theology of the Middle Ages: the best French
scholars seem to have a natural advantage over their Anglo-Saxon
counterparts in the business of ideological anatomy. With relish and
sharpness of mind, they can take a huge body of thought, most of it
baffling to outsiders, and tease out the main strands, showing the
bizarre ways in which they diverge and converge. Another gift of
French academia is a keen sense of the way in which almost any
impulse—in philosophy, politics or any other field—tends to generate
its opposite; and, hence, of the paradoxically close relationship
between people, movements and trends which appear to be radically
opposed.
Globalised Islam: The Search for a New Ummah
By Olivier Roy
Hurst; 349 pages; £30 (hardback) and £16.95 (paperback).
Olivier Roy
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The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West
By Gilles Kepel
Belknap Press; 336 pages; $23.95 and £15.95
Gilles Kepel
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political Islam
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