Islamism and the West [electronic resource] : from 'cultural attack' to 'missionary migrant' / Uriya Shavit.

Offering a unique analysis of Islamist ideology, Islamism and the West attempts to explain how- and why-mainstream Islamist leaders have, for the past century, developed and canonized theories which depict theWest as engaged in a sophisticated conspiracy to undermine Muslim identity by cultural mean...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Shavit, Uriya
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2014.
Series:Routledge studies in political Islam ; 10.
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Table of Contents:
  • Second-generation Islamism in the path of pragmatic idealism
  • Disco is the new crusader: roots and systemization of the 'cultural attack'
  • Do cultures possess guns? contextualizing and debating the 'cultural attack'
  • The decline of the West: predicting the collapse of a godless civilization
  • From nadir to triumph: constructing the Muslim migrant as a missionary.