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"A must read for anyone who wants to better understand Islam and its humanity." -- Nora Boustany, Washington Post
"A testament to the balanced yet uncompromising nature of [Shadid's] work." -- New Internationalist
"A testament to the balanced yet uncompromising nature of [Shadid's] work." -- New Internationalist
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Offers a controversial argument that the main currents of political Islam, despite recent world events, are rejecting militancy for the sake of democratic politics - a shift of historical importance.
Now available in paperback, Legacy of the Prophet is a sweeping, first-person account of the transformation in the style and message of Islamic politics at the beginning of the twenty-first century. As terrorism floods our headlines, this book offers a rare but much-needed counterpoint: it shows that Islamic activists have increasingly renounced violence in order to form political parties, engage in grass-roots work, and enter into civil society to bring about peaceful reform in their authoritarian societies. Drawing on his years of reporting in more than a dozen countries of the Muslim world, Anthony Shadid charts the way in which the adolescence of yesterday's Islamic militants is yielding to the maturity of today's activists. Through personal interviews and extensive travel, he chronicles that new generation, which is finding a more realistic and potentially more successful future through democratic politics. Complete with a new introduction, Legacy of the Prophet promises to redefine the debate over the future of political Islam.
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This review is from: Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats, and the New Politics of Islam (Paperback)
Anthony Shadid, though not a native of the Middle East, comes off sounding like one. From his vantage position of a Boston Globe Middle East reporter and Lebanese lineage, he has spent significant time in the Middle East and seems to have an insider's eye in analyzing the torrid political landscape there. I went on a spate of reading books on the Middle East and Islam after September 11th and this book is at the top of my list and comes highly recommended. In comparison to V.S. Naipul's "Beyond Belief," I would point you to Shadid's book for a good in depth analysis of Islam's current and powerful effect on the Middle East. Naipul's book is good for telling a story of people's lives in non-Arabic Islamic countries, but Shadid's work is what I was looking for...a well-written and engaging breakdown of a variety of Middle East countries and how Islam shapes the politics and daily underpinnings of those places. Shadid's purview is definitely broad but doesn't loose out in the details of each country and movement. "Legacy of the Prophet," primarily covers Sudan's failed Islamic government, Iran's petered out revolution and Khatami's reform, Egypt's emerging democratic Islamic movements, with several stops in between in Turkey, Palestine, Lebanon, and Afghanistan to name a few. Shadid's overly optimistic thesis is that Islamic extremism is taking in it's last dying desperate breaths and emerging from it, or as a more widespread alternative, a form of democratic political Islam that seeks to inculcate change from within existing governments. Though optimistic, Shadid at least has taken the time to expose the broader good of political Islam to a West that largely seeks out confirmation of presupposed suppositions of a political Islam that is violent, close-minded, and bent on death and destruction of all things Western. It seems a case of a narrow-minded and hopeless small minority of Islamic extremists that continue to represent to the West what is accepted (but uninformed) as the face of Political Islam. Shadid points out that this may not be the case and does it in a way that will keep you interested from beginning to end. I'm surprised more people aren't reading and reviewing this highly engaging work.
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Great work of a long time Middle East reporter,
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This review is from: Legacy Of The Prophet: Despots, Democrats, And The New Politics Of Islam (Hardcover)
A.Shadid has been covering the M.E for many years and this books sums up a many persons he met during these years. His in depth knowledge of that region, its people, their culture, traditions and believes is unvaluable. I hope to read more of his work soon.
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A broad, authoritative history of Islamic politics today,
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This review is from: Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats, and the New Politics of Islam (Paperback)
Legacy Of The Prophet: Despots, Democrats, And The New Politics Of Islam by journalist and Middle East expert Anthony Shadid offers the reader a broad, authoritative history of Islamic politics today. Drawing upon his many years of reporting in more than a dozen countries throughout the Muslim world, Shadid accurately chronicles how a new generation of Islamic militants are coming around to a more realistic and potentially more successful advocacy of their goals through democratic politics. Legacy Of The Prophet is strongly recommended for Islamic Studies, Middle East Studies, and International Political Studies supplemental reading lists and academic reference collections.
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September 11th renders some of 'Legacy' dated
This optimistic view of Islamists published in January 2001 was rendered somewhat dated by events later that year.
Published on April 2, 2003 by J. Gillespie
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Interesting & engaging tour of the Middle East
This book teaches through interesting and engaging stories about misunderstood people and places. It provides hope and a inspiration that peace in the trouble region may be...
Published on February 6, 2001
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IT WAS A LITTLE BEFORE DAWN, the lightning streaking and shimmering over the Hindu Kush Mountains, when we arrived at the camp of Afghan fighters outside the war-shattered capital of Kabul. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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IT WAS A LITTLE BEFORE DAWN, the lightning streaking and shimmering over the Hindu Kush Mountains, when we arrived at the camp of Afghan fighters outside the war-shattered capital of Kabul. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Center Party, Legacy of the Prophet, Muslim Brotherhood, United States, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Abu Zeid, Islamic Group, West Bank, Afghan Arabs, Mirza Khan, Prophet Mohammed, Third World, Anwar Sadat, Iranian Revolution, Virtue Party, Abu Musameh, Khartoum University, Sayyid Qutb, Upper Egypt, Eid Rabia, Nile River, Persian Gulf, Soviet Union, World War New!
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- The Failure of Political Islam by Olivier Roy on 7 pages
- Voices of Resurgent Islam by John L. Esposito on 6 pages
- Cairo: The City Victorious by Max Rodenbeck on 4 pages
- Muslim Extremism in Egypt: The Prophet and Pharaoh, With a New Preface for 2003 by Gilles Kepel on 4 pages
- Muslim Politics (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics) by Dale F. Eickelman on 4 pages
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- Religion in International Relations: The Return from Exile (Culture and Religion in International Relations) by Fabio Petito on page 269
- Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics) by Pippa Norris in Back Matter
- Deterrence and Influnce in Counterterrorism: A Component in the War on Al Qaeda by Paul K. Davis in Back Matter
- Islamic Imperialism: A History by Efraim Karsh in Back Matter
- Islamic Activism: A Social Movement Theory Approach (Indiana Series in Middle East Studies) by Quintan Wiktorowicz on page 31
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