Islamic liberation theology : resisting the empire Introduction Resisting the empire The end of Islamic ideology Blindness and insight Islam and globalization The Shii passion play Liberation theodicy Malcolm X as a Muslim revolutionary Conclusion: Prolegomena to a future liberation theodicy This book is a radical piece of counter intuitive thinking on the clash of civilizations theory and global politics. The author argues that after 9 11 we have not seen a new phase in a long running confrontation between Islam and the West but that such cataegories have collapsed. The West is no longer a unified actor and Islam is ideologically exhausted in its confontation with colonialism. Rather we are seeing the emergence of the US as a lone superpower and a confrontation between a form of imperial globalized capital and a new Islamic theodicy.