Islamic Liberation Theology
Subtitle: Resisting the Empire
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: June 22, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780415771559
Subjects: International relations; Islamic studies; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Political Science / International Relations; International Relations - General; Islam - General; Islam - Theology; Islam; Islam and world politics; Islamic countries; Islamic renewal; Religious awakening
Description: 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.