Islam, Modernity and Tradition with Abdal Hakim Murad
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The Incompatibility of Islam and the West
John Gray in the aftermath of 9-11 wrote this little book Al-Qa'ida and what it means to be modern. He diagnoses the whole sort of Islamist radical project just essentially an epiphenomenon of the European story. I think that's quite a widespread view amongst western analysts of what's happening in the Muslim world. The idea of an Islamic Republic for instance the Khomeini thought he was going to almost in this Heideggerian way has not worked very well.
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