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Author:

Mamdani, Mahmood, 1946-

Title:

Good Muslim, bad Muslim : America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror / Mahmood Mamdani.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Pantheon Books

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

xii, 304 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Cold war.
Islam and politics--History--20th century.
Terrorism--History--History--20th century.
Drug traffic--History--History--20th century.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Causes.
United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
United States--Foreign relations--Afghanistan.
Afghanistan--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--Developing countries.
Developing countries--Foreign relations--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

9780375422850
0375422854

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53315228

LCCN:

2003063965

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

NCPC953 -- Buffalo Center Public Library (Buffalo Center)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

VFPB334 -- Elgin Public Library (Elgin)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)