Good Muslim, bad Muslim
Subtitle: America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror
By: Mahmood Mamdani.
Edition: 1st Three Leaves Press ed.
Publisher: Three Leaves Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780385515375
Subjects: Cold War.; Islam and politics -- History -- 20th century.; Terrorism -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.; Drug traffic -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Causes.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.; United States -- Foreign relations -- Afghanistan.; Afghanistan -- Foreign relations -- United States.; United States -- Foreign relations -- Developing countries.; Developing countries -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Description: "Dispels the idea of 'good' (secular, westernized) and 'bad' (premodern, fanatical) Muslims, pointing out that these judgments refer to political rather than cultural or religious identities ... Argues that political Islam emerged as the result of a modern encounter with Western power, and that the terrorist movement at the center of Islamist politics is an even more recent phenomenon, one that followed America's embrace of proxy war after its defeat in Vietnam"--jacket.
Notes: "Good Muslim, bad Muslim was originally published in hardcover by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2004" (verso t.p.).

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Modernity and violence; title: Culture talk, or How not to talk about Islam and politics; title: The Cold War after Indochina; title: Afghanistan : the high point in the Cold War; title: From proxy wars to open aggression; title: Beyond impunity and collective punishment.