Editorial Reviews
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Alireza Shomali International Journal of Middle East Studies : Offers an astute interdisciplinary study that calls on Western scholarship to take a short (irrational?) break from its instrumental rationality.
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Edmund Burke, III, University of California, Santa Cruz : Enemy in the Mirror is a necessary corrective to a good deal of ill-considered polemic, one that has important implications for understanding all types of fundamentalism. Roxanne Euben makes convincing arguments, encouraging the reader to reconsider the origins of modern rationalism and anti-rationalism. Her insistence that political theory open its doors to consideration of questions drawn from other cultures is also saluta0ry and long overdue.
Seyla Benhabib, Harvard University : Roxanne Euben's argument that one should analyze Islamic fundamentalist thought not only for its function but also for its meaning--the intrinsic value of its ideas--is valid and absolutely timely. Enemy in the Mirror is a well-researched and impressive contribution to the analysis of Islamic political thought and to comparative political philosophy.
Enemy in the Mirror
Enemy in the Mirror,Roxanne L. Euben,Princeton University Press,069105844X,Comparative Religion,Government - Comparative,History & Theory - General,International Relations - General,Islam - General,Islamic countries,Islamic fundamentalism,Politics - Current Events,Politics / Current Events,Politics and government,Politics/International Relations,Rationalism,Religion,History / Middle East,Middle Eastern Studies,Political Philosophy,Political Science and International Relations,Postcolonial Studies
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