The Borders of Islam: Exploring Samuel Huntington's Faultlines, from Al-Andalus to Virtual Ummah

Stig Jarle Hansen, Atle Mesoy, Tuncay Kardas

ISBN 10: 1850659737 / ISBN 13: 9781850659730

Published by C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd -, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Borders of Islam: Exploring Samuel Huntington's Faultlines, from Al-Andalus to Virtual Ummah
• Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd -
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1850659737
• ISBN 13: 9781850659730
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The Borders of Islam gives an insider’s view of the so-called “Islam’s bloody borders” through an examination of the countries that straddle two cultures/civilizations from across various regions. The book makes an enormous contribution to debates on “clash of civilizations” by critically examining various cases of war and conflict, which is one of the key elements of the thesis formulated by Samuel Huntington and popularized by the media. Hansen, Mesoy and Kardas take on Huntington’s main thesis with an aim to falsify it. The book stands out as one of the strongest counter-arguments to the main premises of the clash of civilizations thesis. It does so by arguing that the clash sometimes is constructed, as is the case of various internal and external conflicts taking place in and around Iraq, or it neglects the division within the Islamic civilization, as is the case with Lebanon where the Sunnis have a different agenda than the Shiite Muslims, or that the clash between M