Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-293) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : An Axial Era in the World and in Islam -- World Upheavals in the 1990s and their Impact on Islam -- The New Tri-Polar World : The US, Russia and China -- The Politization of Islam, the Rise of Militant Islam -- Nuclear Islam : Pakistan, Iran and its Satellites -- Spring : The Arab Revolt and its Islamic Anti-dote -- The Islamic Axis of Change in the Midst of Conflict -- The Islamic Watershed -- Conclusion : Watershed towards Growth or Down to the Abyss?
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