Death to America Day
Roger Hardy, 15 September 1988
Europe and the Mystique of Islam
by Maxime Rodinson, translated by Roger Veinus.
Tauris, 163 pp., £19.50, April 1988,1 85043 104 3 Show More
by Maxime Rodinson, translated by Roger Veinus.
Tauris, 163 pp., £19.50, April 1988,
The Political Language of Islam
by Bernard Lewis.
Chicago, 168 pp., £11.95, July 1988,0 226 47692 8 Show More
by Bernard Lewis.
Chicago, 168 pp., £11.95, July 1988,
Islam and Revolution in the Middle East
by Henry Munson.
Yale, 180 pp., £15.95, June 1988,0 300 04127 6 Show More
by Henry Munson.
Yale, 180 pp., £15.95, June 1988,
“... There was rage and defiance, as well as humiliation, in the remarkable speech broadcast in Ayatollah Khomeini’s name on 20 July. In drinking the poisoned chalice of a truce with Iraq, he hurled execration at his enemies like some latterday Lear. Islam would he avenged on America, Israel and the house of Saud. The survival of the Islamic revolution required an unpalatable peace with the enemy next door, but there could be no let-up in Islam’s war against those ‘world-devourers’ – Zionism, capitalism and communism ... ”
