Table of Contents

Preface: A Tribute to Eqbal, by AhmadEmran Qureshi Introduction: Constructing the Muslim Enemy, by Emran Qureshi and Michael A. Sells Part I Palace Fundamentalism and Liberal Democracy, by Fatema Mernissi The Clash of Definitions, by Edward W. Said The Clash of Civilizations: Samuel P. Huntington, Bernard Lewis, and the Remaking of the Post-Cold War World Order, by John Trumpbour The Clash of Civilizations: An Islamicist's Critique, by Roy P. Mottahedeh Among the Mimics and Parasites: V. S. Naipaul's Islam, by Rob Nixon Islamic and Western Worlds: The End of History or Clash of Civilizations, by Mujeeb R. Khan Europe and the Muslims: The Permanent Crusade?, by Tomaz Mastnak The Myth of Westernness in Medieval Literary Historiography, by MarIa Rosa Menocal Islamophobia in France and the "Algerian Problem", by Neil MacMaster The Nationalist Serbian Intellectuals and Islam: Defining and Eliminating a Muslim Community, by Norman Cigar Christ Killer, Kremlin, Contagion, by Michael A. Sells Contributors Index

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The New Crusades explores the historical, political, and institutional forces that have raised the specter of a threatening and monolithic Muslim enemy. Bringing together twelve of the most influential thinkers in Middle Eastern and religious studies-including Edward Said, Roy Mottahedeh, and Fatema Mernissi-this timely collection confronts stereotyped depictions of the Arab-Islamic world, offering instead an informed, critical, and realistic study of contemporary Islam.

About the Author

Emran Qureshi is an independent scholar and freelance journalist. His articles and reviews have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Toronto Globe & Mail, the Washington Post, and the Guardian Weekly. He resides in Ottawa, where he is working on his next book, a study of Islam and human rights.Michael A. Sells is Emily Judson Baugh and John Marshall Guest Professor of Comparative Religion at Haverford College. He is the author of more than sixty articles and seven books, including Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations and The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia.

Reviews

A book of major importance... Essential. Choice Sophisticated, subtle, richly documented, and wide-ranging. -- L. Carl Brown Foreign Affairs This is an important book... for those engaged in challenging the assumptions that lie behind this current 'war on terror'. The Muslim World Book Review The New Crusades assmbles expert knowledges of some tangled historical roots... this work deserves as wide a readership as possible. -- Max Weiss Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism An insightful work. -- Roxanne D. Marcotte Studies in Religion An important book at an important time in American social thought. -- Daniel L. Smith-Christopher Studies in Contemporary Islam