Islam in this twenty-first century is caught between three inter-related forces - globalization, international terrorism and the rise of the American Empire. This book examines those forces from the perspective of the rise and fall of civilizations. If Edward Gibbon and Arnold Toynbee could trace the decline of the Roman Empire to the challenge of Christianity, should we now anticipate the decline of the American Empire through the challenge of Islam?
Ali Mazrui analyses the stresses and strains of relations between Islam and the West in this era of tense globalization. Issues of church and state within societies interact with issues of ideology and power in foreign relations.
ALI A. MAZRUI was Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton and Senior Scholar in African Studies at Cornell University
North America: Africa World Press; Kenya: EAEP
- ISBN10 0852558848
- ISBN13 9780852558843
- Publish Date 17 August 2006 (first published 1 November 2004)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint James Currey
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 352
- Language English