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- catalog abstract ""In A Fury for God, Malise Ruthven, a scholar of Islamic history and Middle Eastern affairs, traces the religious and intellectual background behind the terrorist attacks on the United States. They were carried out, he argues, by men steeped in "Islamist" ideology: an amalgam of traditional Islamic concepts such as "jihad" and extremist ideas adapted from European leftism, fascism and anarchism." "Ruthven investigates the hijackers' motives, particularly those of their leader, Mohammed Atta - a figure troubled, like many of his contemporaries, by the clash between Islamic and Western values, including unresolved conflicts over gender and sexuality. It would be a mistake, Ruthven insists, to treat these men as medieval fanatics: their attitude to modernity is dangerous and ambivalent." "In an analysis, the author exposes the crucial importance of the Saudi Arabian connection: it is an authoritarian regime responsible for the massive sponsorship of "fundamentalism"; the birthplace of Osama bin Laden, head of al-Qa'ida; and the home of fifteen of the hijackers. At the same time, Saudi Arabia remains America's closest ally in the Arab world, armed and tolerated for its oil. Though Ruthven rejects the thesis that the Western and Islamic worlds are heading inevitably for a clash between "civilizations," he concludes by suggesting that if left unchecked, pressures from religious fundamentalists (both Christian and Jewish) in the United States and Israel, added to the religious forces at work in the Muslim world, might well conspire to produce just such an outcome."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b12572730.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""In A Fury for God, Malise Ruthven, a scholar of Islamic history and Middle Eastern affairs, traces the religious and intellectual background behind the terrorist attacks on the United States. They were carried out, he argues, by men steeped in "Islamist" ideology: an amalgam of traditional Islamic concepts such as "jihad" and extremist ideas adapted from European leftism, fascism and anarchism." "Ruthven investigates the hijackers' motives, particularly those of their leader, Mohammed Atta - a figure troubled, like many of his contemporaries, by the clash between Islamic and Western values, including unresolved conflicts over gender and sexuality. It would be a mistake, Ruthven insists, to treat these men as medieval fanatics: their attitude to modernity is dangerous and ambivalent." "In an analysis, the author exposes the crucial importance of the Saudi Arabian connection: it is an authoritarian regime responsible for the massive sponsorship of "fundamentalism"; the birthplace of Osama bin Laden, head of al-Qa'ida; and the home of fifteen of the hijackers. At the same time, Saudi Arabia remains America's closest ally in the Arab world, armed and tolerated for its oil. Though Ruthven rejects the thesis that the Western and Islamic worlds are heading inevitably for a clash between "civilizations," he concludes by suggesting that if left unchecked, pressures from religious fundamentalists (both Christian and Jewish) in the United States and Israel, added to the religious forces at work in the Muslim world, might well conspire to produce just such an outcome."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "September 11th -- Jihad -- The Aesthetics of Martyrdom -- A Fury for God -- Cultural Schizophrenia -- The Seeds of Terror -- Jihad in America -- A Clash of Civilizations?.".
- catalog extent "xxii, 324 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Fury for God.".
- catalog identifier "1862075409".
- catalog isFormatOf "Fury for God.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Granta,".
- catalog relation "Fury for God.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "322.10917671 21".
- catalog subject "Culture conflict.".
- catalog subject "HV6432 .R88 2002".
- catalog subject "Islamic fundamentalism.".
- catalog subject "Terrorism United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "September 11th -- Jihad -- The Aesthetics of Martyrdom -- A Fury for God -- Cultural Schizophrenia -- The Seeds of Terror -- Jihad in America -- A Clash of Civilizations?.".
- catalog title "A fury for God : the Islamist attack on America / Malise Ruthven.".
- catalog type "text".