Failure of Political Islam

A view of Islam as a religion of political extremism, containing the seeds of its own politicization in a manner inherently incompatible with much of the Western world, has gradually become well entrenched in Western policy circles...In this erudite and powerful book, Olivier Roy persuasively challenges such ahistoricism. Roy...uses his wide-ranging and detailed knowledge of the Muslim world to present a reading of contemporary Islamic movements that provides an important corrective to such gross simplifications. The argument is all the more pertinent at a time when well-known American political scientists see global politics reduced to a 'clash of civilizations.'...[This] is a forceful work--an eloquent contribution to an important current debate by a scholar with long experience in the world of political Islam.Roy, Olivier is the author of 'Failure of Political Islam' with ISBN 9780674291409 and ISBN 0674291409.