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Mahmood Mamdani

Good Muslim, Bad Muslim

America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror

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In this brilliant look at the rise of political Islam, the distinguished political scientist and anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani brings his expertise and insight to bear on a question many Americans have been asking since 9/11: how did this happen?Mamdani dispels the idea of good” (secular, westernized) and bad” (premodern, fanatical) Muslims, pointing out that these judgments refer to political rather than cultural or religious identities. The presumption that there are good” Muslims readily available to be split off from bad” Muslims masks a failure to make a political analysis of our times. This book argues that political Islam emerged as t… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-385-51591-7
  • EAN: 9780385515917
  • Produktnummer: 15725989
  • Verlag: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
  • Seitenangabe: 320 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 2'126 KB

Über den Autor


Mahmood Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda. A political scientist and anthropologist, he is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. His previous books include Citizen and Subject and When Victims Become Killers. In 2001 he presented one of the nine papers at the Nobel Peace Prize Centennial Symposium. He lives in New York City and Kampala with his wife and son.

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