Years of Upheaval: Axial Changes in Islam Since 1989

ISBN-13: 9780367597061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 328 str.

Raphael Israeli

Opis

Years of Upheaval discusses 'Axial periods' in history; years that witnessed such fundamental reversals in history as to make the world turn upside down and inaugurate a new era. Raphael Israeli sees the post-1989 period as such a period in Islam.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The New Axial Era in Islamic and World Events

1. World Upheavals in the New Islamic Axial Era and Their Impact on Islam

2. The New Tripolar World - The United States, Russia, and China

3. The Politization of Islam, the Rise of Islamic Radicalism

4. Nuclear Islam: Pakistan and Iran and Its Satellites

5. The Arab Revolt and Its Islamic Antidote

6. The Islamic Axis of Change in the Midst of Conflict

7. The Islamic Watershed 2

Conclusions: Watershed toward Growth or Down to the Abyss?

Bibliography

Analytical Index: Names, Places, Terms, and Concepts

O autorze

Raphael Israeli