
Encounters with Islam
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Representing the 'best of Ruthven', these lucid essays will be widely appreciated by students, specialists and general readers. They transform our understandings of contemporary society.
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- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part One - A Clash of Civilisations?
- 1. Muamalat: Islamic Obligations at Home and Abroad
- 2. An Unnecessary Clash
- 3. The Birth of Islam: A Different View
- 4. Politics and the Prophet
- 5 Our Deputy Sheriffs in the Middle East
- Part Two - Faith, Power and Terror
- 6. Does Terrorism Work?
- 7. Signposts on the Road
- 8. Faces of Islam
- 9. The Rise of Muslim Terrorists
- 10. Deception over Lockerbie?
- Part Three - Muslim Societies
- 11. Onward Muslim Soldiers
- 12. Pasting Green Labels
- 13. Phantoms of Ideology
- 14. Storm over Syria
- 15. The Family
- Part Four - Iran in Focus
- 16. The Fall of the Shah
- 17. Was Weber Wrong?
- 18. Khomeini's Rose Garden
- 19. Divided Iran on the Eve
- 20. The Cultures of Shi'ism
- Part Five - Islam in the West
- 21. Europe's Muslim Problem
- 22. The Muslim's Cell
- 23. The Shrinking Sphere
- 24. The Satanic Verses Revisited
- 25. Made in the USA
- Part Six - Beyond Islam
- 26. A Holy (O)mission
- 27. Edward Said, 1935-2003
- 28. Rupees for Relief
- Index
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