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Holy War and Unholy Terror
Random House
March 2004
On Sale: March 2, 2004
202 pages
ISBN: 0812967852
EAN: 9780812967852
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Political | Non-Fiction History
In his first book since What Went Wrong? Bernard Lewis
examines the historical roots of the resentments that
dominate the Islamic world today and that are increasingly
being expressed in acts of terrorism. He looks at the
theological origins of political Islam and takes us through
the rise of militant Islam in Iran, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia,
examining the impact of radical Wahhabi proselytizing, and
Saudi oil money, on the rest of the Islamic world. The Crisis of Islam ranges widely through thirteen centuries
of history, but in particular it charts the key events of
the twentieth century leading up to the violent
confrontations of today: the creation of the state of
Israel, the Cold War, the Iranian Revolution, the Soviet
defeat in Afghanistan, the Gulf War, and the September 11th
attacks on the United States. While hostility toward the West has a long and varied
history in the lands of Islam, its current concentration on
America is new. So too is the cult of the suicide bomber.
Brilliantly disentangling the crosscurrents of Middle
Eastern history from the rhetoric of its manipulators,
Bernard Lewis helps us understand the reasons for the
increasingly dogmatic rejection of modernity by many in the
Muslim world in favor of a return to a sacred past. Based on
his George Polk Award–winning article for The New Yorker,
The Crisis of Islam is essential reading for anyone who
wants to know what Usama bin Ladin represents and why his
murderous message resonates so widely in the Islamic world.
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