Adopting traditional dress to gain access to a range of Islamic leaders normally off limits to westerners, Joyce Davis sheds light on western views of the Islamic world. In over a dozen face-to-face encounters with the hidden elite of the Muslim world, the reader hears the words of individuals such as the Sudan's Hassan al Turabi, often described as the new Ayatollah; Muntassir al Zayat, spokesman for Al Gamaa and Al Jihad, responsible for much of the violence in Egypt; and Abida Hussain, Pakistan's former ambassador to the US who allows her daughter to date.
- ISBN10 033377230X
- ISBN13 9780333772300
- Publish Date 5 May 1999
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 368
- Language English