Huntington and his critics: the West and Islam.(Samuel H. Huntington) From: Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: Perry, Glenn E. | COPYRIGHT 2002 Association of Arab-American University Graduates and Institute of Arab Studies. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

THE THIRD MILLENNIUM A.D. HAS STARTED with the specter of a clash among civilizations haunting humanity. Already, during the 1990s, as bewildered intellectuals, used to looking through the lens of the Cold War, were trying to make sense of the changed shape of the world, few notions gained more attention than Samuel H. Huntington's proposition--first publicized in the form of articles (Huntington 1993 a; Huntington 1993b) and then elaborated on in a volume (Huntington 1996 *) which...