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A metahistory of the clash of civilisations : us and them beyond Orientalism / Arshin Adib-Moghaddam.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190235611 (ebook) :Subject(s): East and West
| Culture conflict -- History | Civilization, Western -- Islamic influences | Islamic civilization -- Western influences | Western countries -- Relations -- Islamic countries | Islamic countries -- Relations -- Western countriesAdditional Physical Form: Print version 9780199333523DDC classification: 909.09821 LOC classification: CB251 | .A24 2014Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: This volume presents a history of the idea of the 'Clash of Civilisations' with particular reference to the myth of an inevitable confrontation between Islam and the West. It delves into history all the way back to the wars between Persia and Greece, the Crusades, Colonialism and the Enlightenment and brings this analysis forward to the contemporary 'war on terror'.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
This volume presents a history of the idea of the 'Clash of Civilisations' with particular reference to the myth of an inevitable confrontation between Islam and the West. It delves into history all the way back to the wars between Persia and Greece, the Crusades, Colonialism and the Enlightenment and brings this analysis forward to the contemporary 'war on terror'.
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