Palace Fundamentalism and Liberal Democracy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface: A Tribute to Eqbal Ahmad ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Constructing the Muslim Enemy 1
6. Part I
7. Palace Fundamentalism and Liberal Democracy 51
8. The Clash of Definitions 68
9. The Clash of Civilizations: Samuel P. Huntington, Bernard Lewis, and the Remaking of Post–Cold War World Order 88
10. The Clash of Civilizations: An Islamicist’s Critique 131
11. Among the Mimics and the Parasites: V. S. Naipaul’s Islam 152
12. The Islamic and Western Worlds: “End of History” or the “Clash of Civilizations”? 170
13. Part II
14. Europe and the Muslims: The Permanent Crusade? 205
15. The Myth of Westernness in Medieval Literary Historiography 249
16. Islamophobia in France and the “Algerian Problem” 288
17. The Nationalist Serbian Intellectuals and Islam: Defining and Eliminating a Muslim Community 314
18. Christ Killer, Kremlin, Contagion 352
19. Contributors 389
20. Index 391