Center and Periphery in the World of Islam

ISBN-13: 9786206165811 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str.

Raphael Israeli

Opis

The world has been plagued by popular movements of dissidents in practically all countries, which following the precedent set by the Blacks in America, who a century and half after the American Civil War which supposedly freed the Blacks from slavery, are still watching almost daily scenes of discrimination and mistreatment of Black Americans on the infamous model of G. Floyd. Those dissidents and rebels against the existing order embrace various patterns of protest, more or less violent, fearing the obliteration of their identity under the sweep of globalist ideology, and electing to stress their discontent, their rejection of injustice and their claim for the absolute right to rebel due to the absolute oppression that has been pushing them to the margins of their societies. At times, these popular movements can be categorized as wokeism or zombeism, or, on the contrary, in the case of Islam, likening globalism to the established notion of the Ummah, the universal congregation of all Muslims.

O autorze

Raphael Israeli - PhD in Chinese and Islamic History, Professor of Islamic and Chinese History, Professor Emeritus. Author and editor of over 90 research books, and over 100 scholarly articles in the fields of Islamic Radicalism, Islamic Terrorism, the Modern Middle East, Islam in China, Asia and Europe.