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Mission Al Jazeera: Build a Bridge, Seek the Truth, Change the World
by
Josh Rushing,
Palgrave MacMillan,
ISBN13:
9781403979056
June 2007, Pages 233
Blending his riveting personal
story with innovative ideas about how to win the war on terror, former
marine turned Al Jazeera reporter Josh Rushing addresses all the issues he
was not allowed to talk about when he was in uniform. If we are to win the
war on terror, Rushing explains, we have to interact with the media at home
and abroad in order to control the way we are perceived. By refusing to
appear on Al Jazeera, Western leaders allow people who disagree with the
current administration to represent the West to the Arab world in a skewed,
negative way. By taking readers inside Al Jazeera, Rushing offers a unique
behind-the-scenes look at the controversial news channel and shows how the
West can harness it to its advantage, relay a positive message to the
Arab public, and hear what it has to say in return.
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Zayd, Nasr Abu Reformation of Islamic Thought: A Critical Historical Analysis. Distributed for
Amsterdam University Press. 256 p. 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 2006
Paper CUSA1 $52.50sp ISBN:
978-90-5356-828-6 (ISBN-10: 90-5356-828-X) Spring 2006
Reformation of
Islamic Thought explores the
writings of intellectuals from Egypt to Iran to Indonesia, probing their
efforts to expand Islam beyond traditional and legalistic interpretations.
Zayd reveals that many Muslim thinkers advocate culturally enlightened Islam
with an emphasis on individual faith. He then investigates the extent of
these Muslim reformers’ success in generating an authentic renewal of
Islamic ideology, asking if such thinkers have escaped the traditionalist
trap of presenting a negative image to the West.
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Challenging
the New Orientalism:
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Dissenting Essays
on the ‘War Against Islam’
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The essays in this book – written after 9-11 – challenge the new Orientalists
at several levels. They show that their essentialist construction of an
unchanging Islam, opposed to ‘Western’ values and incapable of adapting to
the modern world, is misleading and dangerous. The not-so-hidden objective of
the new Orientalism is to package the US and Israel’s imperialist thrust
into the Islamic world as both a security imperative and a civilizing
mission. Alam argues that the new Orientalist’s claim of clashing dichotomies
between Islam and the West is based on a tendentious reading of the history
of Islam and the West. While recognizing the political and economic failings
of the Islamic world, Alam shows that these are legacies of two centuries of
Western imperialism and are shared – to varying degrees – by all regions at
the periphery of global capitalism.
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The Islamic Law of Nations Shaybani's Siyar Majid Khadduri
$25.00 paperback
978-0-8018-6975-4 (26 ctn qty)2001 232 pp. In the second century of the Muslim era (eighth
century C.E.), hundreds of years before the codification of international law
in Europe by Grotius and others, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani, an eminent
jurist of the Hanafite school in present-day Iraq, wrote the first major
Islamic treatise on the law of nations, Kitab al-Siyar al-Kabir.
Translated with an extensive commentary by Majid Khadduri, Shaybani's Siyar
describes in detail conditions for war (jihad) and for peace, principles for
the conduct of military action and of diplomacy, and rules for the treatment of
non-Muslims in Muslim lands. A foundational text of the leading school of law
in Sunni Islam, it provides essential insights into relations between Islamic
nations and the larger world from their earliest days up to the present.
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| The Islamic Conception of Justice In The Islamic Conception of Justice, Majid Khadduri, one of the world's preeminent authorities on Islamic justice and jurisprudence, presents his extensive study and reflection on Islamic political, legal, ethical, and social philosophy. This book is both a magisterial historical synthesis and an illumination of the beliefs and practices of modern Islam. Throughout, Khadduri discusses not only the meaning of justice in general but also how justice has undergone significant changes in the modern age. The final chapter deals with the impact of Western notions of justice, with especial emphasis on the recurrence of fundamentalist movements such as the Islamic Revolution in Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Pakistan, and other Islamic lands.
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America, Islam, and the Future of Europe
Zachary Shore
$25.00 hardcover
978-0-8018-8505-1 (30 ctn qty)
2006 240 pp While American leaders wage war on extremists in the Middle East, they are dangerously detached from a potentially greater threat closer to home. In Breeding Bin Ladens, Zachary Shore asserts that the growing ambivalence of Europe’s Muslims poses risks to national identities, international security, and the transatlantic alliance. Europe’s failure to integrate its Muslim millions, combined with America’s battered image in the Muslim world, have left too many Western Muslims easy prey for violent dogmas. Until America and Europe adopt new strategies, Shore argues, Europe will increasingly become the incubation ground for breeding new Bin Ladens.
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