The Receding Shadow of the Prophet
Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of Radical Political Islam
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780275976286
Subjects: Islam; Islamic studies; Political ideologies; Religion - World Religions; Religion; Comparative Religion; Religion / Comparative Religion; Islam and politics; Islamic countries; Islamic fundamentalism; Politics and government; Religion and politics
First sentence: A September 1991 headline in the Russian newspaper Izvestiia neatly encapsulates the attitudes expressed by many policymakers and opinion-shapers in the West in the period following the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, and reinforced since the September 11 attacks: "The Red Flag of Communism or the Green Flag of Islam?"