Resistance: The Essence of the Islamist Revolution by Alastair Crooke
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- Pub. Date: February 2009
- 288pp
- Sales Rank: 249,326
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: February 2009
- Publisher: Pluto Press
- Format: Paperback, 288pp
- Sales Rank: 249,326
- ISBN-13: 9780745328850
- ISBN: 0745328857
Synopsis
This book traces the essence of the Islamist Revolution from its origins in Egypt, through Najf, Lebanon, Iran and the Iranian Revolution to today. Alastair Crooke presents a compelling account of the ideas and energy which are mobilsing the Islamic world. The story of the emerging Islamist Revolution is largely one of an Islamic response to western thinking based around individualism and personal relationships with the divine, juxtaposed to the Islamist demand to place human values above politics and self-interest. Crooke argues that the West faces a mass mobilisation against the US-led Western project. The roots of this conflict are described in terms of religious themes that extend back over 500 years. They represent clashing systems of thinking and values. Islamists have a vision for the future of their own societies which would entail radical change from Western norms. Resistance is presented as the means to force Western behaviour to change and to expose the essential differences between the two modes of thinking. This is a rigourous account that traces the threads of revolution of various movements, including the influence of "political Shi'ism" and the Iranian Revolution and its impact on Hezbollah and Hamas.
Biography
Alastair Crooke was advisor to EU High Representative, Solana, in the Middle East, 1997-2003. He was involved in facilitating a series of de-escalations of violence and military withdrawals in Palestine with Islamist movements from 2000-2003 and the end to the Bethlehem Church of the Nativity seige. He was a staff member of the Mitchell Committee into the causes of the Intifada in 2000. He is Director and founder of Conflicts Forum.
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Resistance by Alastair Crooke - An Explanation of Islam's Criticisms of and Conflicts with the Westby timh
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August 23, 2009: This is the most informative thing I have ever read on contemporary Islam, recent history of the Middle East, and the nature and origins of the differences and conflict between the Islamists and the West. It challenges and contradicts many, maybe all, of the explicit and implicit interpretations and characterizations of Muslims and Islamists that we read and hear in the news many times a day. It has a good deal of philosophy, Western and Islamic in it, and I can't pretend to understand or evaluate all of it. In many respects, it is a 31 years-later response to Said"'s Orientalism as it presents the Islamic philosophy and position from their own points of view. The one major qualification is that it is written a Brit, not a Muslim Arab. But it contains many references to
Arab sources and I intend to pursue some of them before our trip to Jordan and Syria planned for October. One important thing the book does not purport to do is evaluate how well the espoused values of justice, equity and compassion are being realized in areas under Islamist control.
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