Challenging the new orientalism
Subtitle: dissenting essays on the "War against Islam"
By: M. Shahid Alam.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Islamic Publications International
Published: 2006
Place of publication: North Haledon, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781889999456; 9781889999463
Subjects: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Causes; Terrorism -- United States; Terrorism -- Israel; Islamic countries -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- Islamic countries
Other titles: New orientalism.
Notes: Previously published as Is there an Islamic problem? (Kuala Lumpur : The Other Press,  2004.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Preface; title: Section 1. The new orientalism; title: Bernard Lewis: scholarship or sophistry?; title: A clash of civilizations? Nonsense; title: The war against global terrorism; title: Is there an Islamic problem?; title: How different are Islamicate societies?; title: Islam: an interview; title: Section 2. Palestine and Israel; title: A colonizing project built on lies; title: Academic boycott of Israel; title: Crossing the line; title: Israel's proxy war; title: Illuminating Thomas Friedman; title: Lerner, Said and the Palestinians; title: Elie Wiesel: on being good victims; title: Recognizing Israel: or selling out; title: Another wall; title: Voiding the Palestinians: an allegory; title: Section 3. War against global terrorism; title: A history of September 11; title: A day that changed America?; title: Why 9-11 and why now?; title: Dialectics of terror; title: Race and visibility; title: Iraq is free; title: Semantics of empire; title: America imagine this; title: The Islamic resistance; title: Testing free speech in America; title: Real men go to Tehran; title: The Muslims America loves; title: Author index; title: Subject index.