Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Arabism and Friends 1. Arab Nationalism: Mistaken Identity 2. Arab Pen, English Purse: John Sabunji and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 3. Arabistik and Arabism: The Passions of Martin Hartmann 4. The Sharifian Propaganda of Eugene Jung 5. The Arab Nation of Shakib Arslan 6. Ambition, Arabism, and George Antonius 7. Prisoner of Love: Jean Genet and Palestine 8. America's Arabists Part II : Islamism and the West 9. "Islam is the Power of the Future" 10. Khomeini's Messengers in Mecca 11. Syria's Alawis and Shi'ism 12. Hizbullah: The Calculus of Jihad 13. Sacrifice and "Self-Martyrdom" in Shi'ite Lebanon 14. France Held Hostage 15. Islam and the West (including Manhattan) 16. Islam vs. Democracy Conclusion Index