The Rise and Fall of the Islamic Empire and the Threat to the West
Historians and literary critics looking for examples of modern literature using classic Orientalist discourse will find The Rise and Fall of the Islamic Empire and the Threat to the West a useful tool. Anthony J. Dennis presents 1,400 years of history, interprets the Qur'an and the Shari'...
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International Institute of Islamic Thought
2003
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| Sumario: | Historians and literary critics looking for examples of modern literature
using classic Orientalist discourse will find The Rise and Fall of the
Islamic Empire and the Threat to the West a useful tool. Anthony J. Dennis
presents 1,400 years of history, interprets the Qur'an and the Shari'ah,
scrutinizes Sunni and Shi'a sectarianism, psychoanalyzes Muslims, comments
on the status of women, discusses international political and national
movements, and gives diplomatic and military contingency plans for civilians
and policymakers to stem the "Islamic threat" to the West in 157
pages (including notes). His second edition forward begins with a polite
"I-told-you-so" claiming that 9/11 occurred because Americans were not
as vigilant as he told them to be in his first edition (1996), that it was the
"first chapter in what promises to be a long battle" (forward) between
Islam and the West.
According to the author, the fall of communism ended the cold war
system of checks and balances and allowed rogue Islamic states to flourish.
Iran, being one of the oldest rogue states and an established enemy of
the United States, took the USSR's place in stimulating and directing revolutions.
Given that Muslims are religiously directed to hate all nonMuslims
and western prosperity is a reminder of their shortcomings,
Muslims are jealous and eager to embrace the new revolution ...
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