'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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edition.
'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
Product Description
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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