the handmaiden of empire

Kumar charts the development of Orientalist discourse from the first perceptions of Islam as an emerging, competing rival and threat to Christian Europe, to the depiction of a religion of backward, irrational and uncivilized people incapable of democratic self-governance and enlightened..

crisis in iraq

There have been numerous reports of conflicts within the alliance and the Islamic State has also begun purging Mosul’s Christian population.24 . ..

political islam: a marxist analysis

For Lewis, this is not a clash between Islam and Judeo-Christianity alone; it is a clash between the religious East and the secular West. ... A brief overview of the birth of Islam and the rise of revivalist movements reveals a simple point: political Islam is better understood as a..

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