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by Olivier Roy (Author) "WE KNOW THAT there is no clergy in Islam ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd (1 Nov 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1850438803
  • ISBN-13: 978-1850438809
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 14.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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For many Westerners, the 1990s may seem the era of Islamic fundamentalism with radical Muslims everywhere on the march, remaking societies and altering the landscape of contemporary politics. Offering a corrective to such a view, the French political philosopher Olivier Roy depicts an entirely different spectacle - political Islam is a failure. Save for Iran, it has not won power in the states of the Muslim world. He asserts that despite its incantation about an "Islamic way", with a specifically Islamic economy and Islamic state, the realities of the Muslim world remain fundamentally unchanged. This text argues that the political regimes of the 1990s are no different from those of the last decade; and the Islamism of the 1980s is still the Third Worldism of the 1960s, that is, populist politics and mixed economies of laissez-faire for the rich, and subsidies for the poor. Roy asserts that the "reds" of yesterday are the Muslim "greens" of today, and there is little prospect that the newcomers will succeed where their predecessors failed. This argument reassesses radical Islam and the set of ideas and assumptions at its core.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Wrong, but interesting nonetheless., 20 Dec 1998
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I'm a Muslim, too, but I think the book is very good. That's not to say that I agree with the author (indeed, I think that most of his conclusions are wrong), but the book is very well-written, well-argued, and well-researched. It is the most cogent of the many hostile critiques that are now available. Though I would recommend taking the author's arguments with a grain of salt (be sure to read something from the other side, too!), the book is certainly worth reading.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Thoughtful, knowledgeable and realistic, 3 Jan 1999
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I read this book a few years ago and was moved to add my review here after reading the other critiques. What I liked most about the book was its realism. The author does not buy into the anti-Muslim paranoia but is also very clear-headed about what political groups claiming to operate in the name of religion can achieve. Read this book if you are worried about rising religious zealotry all over the world, but are also unhappy with the popular but unfounded analyses of "civilizations in conflict" and "the next enemy".
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1.0 out of 5 stars Non-Sense!, 24 Oct 1998
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I hate it when non- Muslims speak from their imagination about Islam instead of considering what it may be like!
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