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> Joanna
The New Crusades: Constructing the Muslim Enemy by Emran Qureshi (Editor), Michael A. Sells (Editor) (Paperback - November 2003) http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023112/0231126662.HTM
Skimmed the chapter by Rob Nixon, who has written for Radical History Review, a few days ago. Excellent critique of Huntington and Bernard Lewis. "A scholarly work of exceptional clarity, forthrightness and position taking. This brilliant work pulls no punches as it provides answers to and refutes the clichés (conventional wisdom) of today that there is a clash of civilizations and that militant Islam is on the march threatening Western civilization. The most comprehensive group of essays you will find which rebuts assertions made by establishment and neo-conservative scholars . This book provides answers and arguments many people have been waiting for and many have needed." –Ahmed Rashid, journalist and author of Taliban and Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia
Note to your ex, Joanna, btw, Michael Sells according to Stephen Schwartz (given that Schwartz is a Sufi?) have corresponded a bit. As have I w/ Sells given the large amt. of material on the Balkan conflicts of the 90's on his website, http://www.haverford.edu/relg/sells/home.html Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations. Ashland: White Cloud Press 1999). ISBN 1-883991-30-7 (hardcover, $33.95), 1-883991-26-9 (paper, $21.95). Orders: ph/fax 800-380-8276. A general introduction to the Qur'an and its role in Islamic culture; new translations of the early Meccan Suras with facing commentaries; two essays on sound, gender, and meaning in the Qur'an; sound diagrams of the call the prayer and six suras; and a CD with Qur'anic reciters from around the world reciting the adhan and six suras in various styles. The goal is to make the early Meccan period of the Qur'an, in its literary and oral qualities, approachable and accessible to those not conversant in Arabic. AVAILABILITY: Because of the high demand, the book is sometimes out of stock; the most immediate and inexpensive way of obtaining the book directly through the publisher: White Cloud Press. The New Crusades: Constructing the Muslim Enemy. New York: Columbia University Press, October 2003. ISBN 0-231-12666-2 (cloth); 0-231-12667-0 (paper). Co-edited with Emran Qureshi. A Critical Analysis of the Clash of Civilizations concept, the way it has been constructed, and the role it plays in contemporary international relations. Critical Introduction by Emran Qureshi and Michael Sells. Essays by Fatema Mernissi, Edward Said, Roy Mottahedeh, John Trumpbour, Rob Nixon, Mujeeb Khan, Maria Rosa Menocal, Tomaz Mastnak, Neil MacMaster, Norman Cigar, and Michael Sells. Orders: Columbia University Press. The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. ISBN 0-520-20690-8 (Cloth) $19.95. New Paperback Edition with a Preface on Kosovo, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), ISBN 0-520-21662-8, $14.95. Orders: 609-883-1759. Examines religious motivation and justification for the genocide, with emphasis upon the militarized mythology of Kosovo that portrays Bosnian Muslims as race- traitors and responsible for the death of the Christ-prince Lazar. Awarded the 1997 American Academy Religion Award for Excellence in Historical Studies. Bosnian Language Edition: Iznevjereni most (translated by Zoran Mutic) (Sarajevo: Sedam, 2002). For extensive documentation see The Bridge Betrayed War Crimes Reports Page. http://www.haverford.edu/relg/sells/reports.html