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100 MYTHS ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST
₨ 3,601Much ink has been spilled in recent years about the Middle East. At the same time, no other region has been as misunderstood, nor framed in so many cliches and mistakenly held beliefs. In this much-needed and enlightening book, Fred Halliday debunks one hundred of the most commonly misconstrued “facts” concerning the Middle East in the political, cultural, social, and historical spheres. In a straightforward and simple way that illuminates the issues without compromising their underlying complexities he gets to the core of each matter. The Israel-Palestine crisis, the Iran-Iraq war, the U.S.-led Gulf invasions, the Afghan-Soviet conflict, and other significant milestones in modern Middle East history come under scrutiny here, with conclusions that will surprise and enlighten many for going so persuasively against the grain of commonly held (mis)perceptions.
A FEW MYTHS FROM 100 MYTHS ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST:
*The Arabs are a desert people.
*There is today one Arabic language,spoken from Iraq in the east to Morocco in the west.
*Oil has been and may become evenmore of a source of conflict in the modern Middle East.
*Islam does not allow for a separationof religion and politics.
*Palestinian nationalism is a creation of Arab states and manipulated by them to put pressure on Israel.
*Israel is not a colonial or settler state.
*Islam forbids alcohol.
*For Muslim women, it is compulsory to wear a headscarf or veil.
ISBN: 0863565298
Publisher: SAQI BOOKS
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Author: FRED HALLIDAY -
SHOCKED AND AWED
₨ 5,202
ISBN: 9781848850316
Publisher: I. B. TAURIS
Subtitle: HOW THE WAR ON TERROR AND JOHAD HAVE CHANGED THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Author: FRED HALLIDAY -
BRITAIN’S FIRST MUSLIMS
₨ 6,404
ISBN: 9781848852990
Publisher: I. B. TAURIS
Subtitle: PORTRAIT OF AN ARAB COMMUNITY
Author: FRED HALLIDAY -
ISLAM & THE MYTH OF CONFRONTATION
₨ 1,295This volume sets out to reject anti-Islamic views of a future dominated by the conflict between “Islam” and “the West”. It has been revised to encompass the events of 11 September 2001, spiralling violence in the Middle East and President George Bush’s proposed identification of an “axis of evil”. Considering the sources of Islamic militancy and analyzing the confrontational rhetoric of both Islamic and anti-Muslim demagogues, Halliday provides an alternative, critical, but cautious, reassessment. The Middle East, he argues, can be treated neither as a distinct nor as a unified region, but must be seen as a set of disparate societies, facing and reacting to the problems of economic development and political change.
ISBN: 1860648681
Publisher: I.B.TAURIS
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Author: FRED HALLIDAY -
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ISLAM AND THE MYTH OF CONFRONTATION
₨ 5,186The collapse of communism, and the rise of militant Islamic movements in the Middle East, have raised the spectre of a future dominated by the conflict between “Islam” and “the West”. From theories such as Samuel Huntingdon’s “Clash of Civilizations” to the anti-Western rhetoric of many Muslim militants themselves, this image of confrontation has come to be widely accepted. At the same time, the many issues afflicting the Middle East itself – from the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Gulf War, to the arguments on Salman Rushdie and human rights – are widely seen as reflecting the influence of Islam on politics and society of this region.
Fred Halliday sets out to reject these interpretations. Considering the sources of Islamic militancy and analyzing the confrontational rhetoric of both Islamic and anti-Muslim demagogues, he provides an alternative, critical but cautious, reassessment. The Middle East, he argues, can be treated neither as a distinct nor as a unified region, but must be seen as a set of variant societies, facing, like much of the rest of the Third World, the problems of economic development and political change.
ISBN: 1850439591
Publisher: I.B. TAURIS
Subtitle: RELIGION AND POLITICS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Author: FRED HALLIDAY