Volume 50, Number 11 · July 3, 2003
Which Way to Mecca? Part II
By Clifford Geertz
AMONG THE BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS REVIEW
Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam
by Gilles Kepel
Harvard University Press, 454 pp., $29.95
Militant Islam Reaches America
by Daniel Pipes
Norton, 307 pp., $25.95
The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa'ud from Tradition to Terror
by Stephen Schwartz
Doubleday, 312 pp., $25.00
Terror and Liberalism
by Paul Berman
Norton, 214 pp., $21.00
The Future of Political Islam
by Graham E. Fuller
Palgrave, 227 pp., $29.95
After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy
by Noah Feldman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 260 pp., $24.00
Faithlines: Muslim Conceptions of Islam and Society
by Riaz Hassan
Oxford University Press, 276 pp., $35.00
The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change
by Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Princeton University Press, 293 pp., $29.95
Since the end of the cold war, when a lot more collapsed than walls and regimes, many of the large-scale concepts by means of which we had been accustomed to sorting out the world have begun to come apart. East and West, Communist and free world, liberal and totalitarian, Arab, Oriental, underdeveloped, third world, nonaligned, and now apparently even Europe have lost much of their edge and definition, and we are left to find our way through vast collections of strange and inconsonant particulars without much in the way of assistance from finely drawn, culturally ratified natural kinds.
Review, 4876 words
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