The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity.(Book review)

From: MELUS | Date: December 22, 2006| Author: Hattori, Tomo | Copyright information

The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity. Tariq Ali. London and New York: Verso, 2002. x, 342 pages. $22 hardcover; $15 paper.

I taught Tariq Ali's The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity recently in an undergraduate course on Asian American Literature. Since around September of 2001, I have been noticing that the most fluid, dynamic, and contested term in my area of study is not the term "Asian," whose constituency has been chan...

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