Chasing a mirage by Tarek Fatah

 
 

 

Farish A. Noor - testimony for "Chasing a mirage" by Tarek Fatah

 

 

"This book focuses on the internal debate within the Muslim world of today and attempts to explain the rise of political Islam from the viewpoint of a critique of Muslim historiography and hagiography… the author reminds us that the socialization of Muslim politics and the canonization of Islamist political thinking was the direct result of centuries of centralization of power (both political and representational) at the hands of right-wing Muslim demagogues and ideologues whose own politics can only be described in present-day terms as Fascist and intolerant."

- FARISH A. NOOR
  Professor, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin; and Sunan Kalijaga Islamic University, Jogjakarta, Indonesia.

 

 

 

 

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