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Item Details
Title:
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AN OFFENCE
THE MUSLIM CASE |
By: |
Kamila Shamsie |
Format: |
Paperback |
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£15.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
1906497036 |
ISBN 13: |
9781906497033 |
Publisher: |
SEAGULL BOOKS LONDON LTD |
Pub. date: |
1 March, 2009 |
Series: |
Manifestos for the Twenty-first Century |
Pages: |
112 |
Description: |
Features a consideration of the case of Pakistan and seeks to place the surge in extremist Islam within the framework of the nation-state. This book aims to sharpen the distinctions between the Merely Offended and the Violently Offended in the course of examining the causes of offence. |
Synopsis: |
In recent years, countless politicians and commentators have been addressing the Quran in an attempt to understand the rise of Muslim extremist ideology. They have missed the point: the most significant factor in this phenomenon is to be found within the particular circumstances of individual nation-states. Islam as a static global and temporal entity is a myth. The reality reflects a wide variety of experience founded on the co-mingling of religion, cultural and national and international politics. It is inside this individual complexity that battle-lines have been drawn and the fight waged within Islam itself, often largely unremarked upon by the world outside. Through a consideration of the case of Pakistan, this volume seeks to place the recent surge in extremist Islam within the framework of the nation-state, and to sharpen those dangerously blurred distinctions between the Merely Offended and the Violently Offended in the course of examining the causes of offence. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Seagull Books London Ltd |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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