The Clash of Fundamentalisms : Crusades, Jihads and Modernity/Tariq Ali. Reprint. New Delhi, Rupa, 2003, xxxii, 428 p., (pbk). ISBN 1-85984-457-X.

Contents: Prologue. I. Mullahs and heretics: 1. An atheist childhood. 2. The origins of Islam. 34. The empire of the world. 4. Jerusalem, Jerusalem. 5. Ottomanism. 6. The joys of heresy. 7. Women versus the eternal masculine. II. One hundred years of servitude: 8. A spring memory. 9. The roots of Wahhabism. 10. The kingdom of corruption. 11. Zionism, the first oil war, resistance. 12. Marginal notes on the chapter of defeats. 13. The anti-imperialism of fools. 14. An ocean of terror. III. The nuclear wastelands of South Asia: 15. The case of Anwar Shaikh. 16. Plain tales from Pakistan. 17. Afghanistan: between hammer and anvil. 18. The story of Kashmir. 19. The colour khaki. IV. A clash of fundamentalism: 20. A short-course history of US imperialism. 21. September surprise. 22. Letter to a young Muslim. V. Epilogue: the road to Bali: 23. A small town in Java. 24. Islam on the equator. 25. A tropical gulag. 26. An island made secure. Appendix: on the Israeli-Arab war/Isaac Deutscher. Index.

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