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'The book sparkles with interesting ideas.' --Middle East International
'The work impresses on two levels: style and substance. Shayegan's vision is a persuasive one.' --International Affairs
' . . . an intelligence and a clarity that are utterly convincing.' --Le Nouvel Obserateur
'This scholarly but accessible study is an analysis-from-within of the tearing apart of a whole people . . . rigorous and courageous.' --L'Express
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'The work impresses on two levels: style and substance. Shayegan's vision is a persuasive one.' --International Affairs
' . . . an intelligence and a clarity that are utterly convincing.' --Le Nouvel Obserateur
'This scholarly but accessible study is an analysis-from-within of the tearing apart of a whole people . . . rigorous and courageous.' --L'Express
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This study of the relationship between Muslim culture and Western modernity, portrays a society bound to its own glorified history - yet facing an external reality from the West. The meeting of these two worlds leads to a profound distortion, especially in how the Muslim world sees itself.
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- The Power of Sovereignity: The Political And Ideological Philosophy of Sayyid Qutb (Routledge Studies in Politicl Islam) by Sayed Khatab in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Muslims and Others: Relations in Context (Religion and Reason) by Jacques Waardenburg on page 272, and page 491
- Political Thought in Islam: A Study in Intellectual Boundaries (Routledgecurzon Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies) by Nelly Lahoud in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Middle East in International Relations: Power, Politics and Ideology (The Contemporary Middle East) by Fred Halliday on page 34
- Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking toward the Third Resurrection by Sherman A. Jackson in Back Matter
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