Re: Oliver Roy, cited by Christian Parenti in an article in the academic left journal, Social Justice (put out by remnants of Marlene Dixon's DWP, "Contemporary Marxism, " crowd of the 80's) on Afghanistan.
Islam and Resistance in Afghanistan (Cambridge Middle East Library) by Olivier Roy
This by him was reviewed in a recent Foreign Affairs by Ugandan marxist, M. Mamdani.
Globalized Islam : The Search for a New Ummah (The Ceri Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies) by Olivier Roy.
Mentored by French marxist scholar of Islam, M. Rodinson.
Standard work in the field,
The Failure of Political Islam by Olivier Roy, Carol Volk (Translator) (Paperback - September 1, 1996)
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