Omer Taspinar (National War College and U.S Brookings Institutions

What the West Is Getting Wrong about the Middle East

Why Islam Is Not the Problem

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Produktbeschreibung

The West's actions in the Middle East are based on a fundamental misunderstanding.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic / I.B.Tauris
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 470493
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 143mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9781788310109
• ISBN-10: 1788310101
• Artikelnr.: 58454053

Autorenporträt

Ömer Taspinar

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: "Why don't we read the Koran?"
Chapter 1: Overstating Islam
Chapter 2: Turkey
Chapter 3: Sunnis versus Shiites
Chapter 4: The Islamic State in Syria and Iraq
Chapter 5: The Western Disconnect
Chapter 6: What needs to be done?

Rezensionen

To illustrate his contention that the role of Islam is often exaggerated [Ömer Taspinar] offers three diverse case studies: the modern history of Turkey, the sectarian conflict between Sunnis and Shiites, and ISIS. Each of the chapters on these three subjects is worth reading in its own right. Asian Affairs, Journal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs