A Fury for God: The Islamist Attack on America
By (author): "Malise Ruthven"
Publish Date:
2002
ISBN1862075409
ISBN139781862075405
AsinA Fury for God: The Islamist Attack on America
Original titleA Fury for God: The Islamist Attack on America
In A Furry For God, Malise Ruthven, a renowned scholar of Islamic history and Middle Eastern affairs, traces the religious and intellectual back-ground behind the terrorist attacks on the United States. They were carried out, he argues, by men steeped in "Islamist" ideology: an amalgam of traditional Islamic concepts such as "jihad' and extremist ideas adapted from European leftism, fascism, and anarchism.