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Title Good Muslim, bad Muslim : America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror / Mahmood Mamdani.
Author Mamdani, Mahmood, 1946-
Publication Info. New York : Pantheon Books 2004.
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Edition 1st ed.
Description xii, 304 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Modernity and violence -- Culture talk, or How not to talk about Islam and politics -- The Cold War after Indochina -- Afghanistan : the high point in the Cold War -- From proxy wars to open aggression -- Beyond impunity and collective punishment.
Summary "Dispels the idea of 'good' (secular, westernized) and 'bad' (premodern, fanatical) Muslims, pointing out that these judgments refer to political rather than cultural or religious identities ... Argues that political Islam emerged as the result of a modern encounter with Western power, and that the terrorist movement at the center of Islamist politics is an even more recent phenomenon, one that followed America's embrace of proxy war after its defeat in Vietnam"--jacket.
Subject United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.
Cold War.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Afghanistan.
Afghanistan -- Foreign relations -- United States.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Developing countries.
Developing countries -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Islam and politics -- History -- 20th century.
Terrorism -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.
Drug traffic -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Causes.
ISBN 0375422854
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