1. Islam dan Jihad

The terrorist attacks of september 11 have focused the world's attention on islamic fundamentalism.we are told that we are witnessing a'clash of civilizations'between a seculer,modern'west'and a backward-looking 'islam'. This short,accessible book does two things: .it rebuls the misconceptions about islam articulated by many european intellectual down the centures,which for nob-muslims still obstruct a clear understanding both of the nature of islam and of the history of christian-muslim interections. .it show the politically motivated and theologically dubious nature of recent assertions by so-called islamic fundamentalist movement,and contrast them with those socially progressive muslim thinkers who have addressed the inescapable questions thrown up for believers by the modern world. A G Noorani provides us with an understanding of certain basic concepts needed to counteract the recent upsurge of ill-informed prejudice agains muslims,and to see through any tendence to romanticize the crude and un-islamic brutalities of fundamentalists who,he argues,are impostors misusing the faith as a political weapon.