The Broken Crescent: The Threat of Militant Islamic Fundamentalism

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In this volume, the author explores the historical and contemporary causes of the current wave of militant Islamic fundamentalism. Despite their terrorist attacks in the West, he also aims to show why fundamentalists are even more dangerous for Muslim countries that are desperately trying to join the incipient global economy and alleviate their accumulated social and economic problems. If Western colonization and economic domination of the 19th and 20th centuries are to be blamed for the predicament of Muslim countries, Hoveyda points out that Muslims also bear a great responsibility for their situation. He shows how the triumph of fundamentalist interpretations of the Koran in the 12th century triggered the gradual decline of Islamic civilization. He also chronicles the history of militant Islamic movements of the past and present from the "Assassins" of the late 11th century to Ayatollah Khomeini. Having met his first militant Islamic fundamentalist at the age of four in Syria, where his father was serving as Persian Consul-general, Hoveyda draws upon a lifetime of personal and family experience as well as scholarship and experiences of others to provide an important insider/outsider examination of a worldwide concern.

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.,.".should be required reading for all participants in international relations and public policy. Certainly everyone in the State Department should study this work closely. It is unquestionably the best book on the subject ever published. The National Committee on American Foreign Policy should be congratulated for sponsoring this research. Fereydoun Hoveyda has written the most sensible, analytic book about the significance and role of Militant Islamic Fundamentalism to appear, so far. He has explained much that the shallow thinkers of earlier studies have failed to comprehend. As was said at the beginning, this volume should be required reading for all supposed Islamic experts in the State Department and for all those who proclaim their wisdom on the matter of terrorism."-Jewish Press
....should be required reading for all participants in international relations and public policy. Certainly everyone in the State Department should study this work closely. It is unquestionably the best book on the subject ever published. The National Committee on American Foreign Policy should be congratulated for sponsoring this research. Fereydoun Hoveyda has written the most sensible, analytic book about the significance and role of Militant Islamic Fundamentalism to appear, so far. He has explained much that the shallow thinkers of earlier studies have failed to comprehend. As was said at the beginning, this volume should be required reading for all supposed Islamic experts in the State Department and for all those who proclaim their wisdom on the matter of terrorism.-Jewish Press
[i]s a study of the perversion of Islam through bellicose, fundamentalist interpretations. Historical background of the first fundamentalist movements in the 12th Century is given, and an t effort to look at Islam in a modernizing world is made.-Middle East Journal
Hoveyda's Broken Crescent is of major importance to all those who wish to comprehend the roots and the scope of militant Islamic fundamentalism in our present time as well as events in Iran....The book is well worth the money you will spend.-Chanteh
This solid, easily readable book discribes the threat of "militant Islamic fundamentalism" on several levels.-Choice
"is a study of the perversion of Islam through bellicose, fundamentalist interpretations. Historical background of the first fundamentalist movements in the 12th Century is given, and an t effort to look at Islam in a modernizing world is made."-Middle East Journal
"[i]s a study of the perversion of Islam through bellicose, fundamentalist interpretations. Historical background of the first fundamentalist movements in the 12th Century is given, and an t effort to look at Islam in a modernizing world is made."-Middle East Journal
"Hoveyda's Broken Crescent is of major importance to all those who wish to comprehend the roots and the scope of militant Islamic fundamentalism in our present time as well as events in Iran....The book is well worth the money you will spend."-Chanteh
"This solid, easily readable book discribes the threat of "militant Islamic fundamentalism" on several levels."-Choice
...".should be required reading for all participants in international relations and public policy. Certainly everyone in the State Department should study this work closely. It is unquestionably the best book on the subject ever published. The National Committee on American Foreign Policy should be congratulated for sponsoring this research. Fereydoun Hoveyda has written the most sensible, analytic book about the significance and role of Militant Islamic Fundamentalism to appear, so far. He has explained much that the shallow thinkers of earlier studies have failed to comprehend. As was said at the beginning, this volume should be required reading for all supposed Islamic experts in the State Department and for all those who proclaim their wisdom on the matter of terrorism."-Jewish Press

Author Bio

FEREYDOUN HOVEYDA is Senior Fellow with the National Committee on American Foreign Policy. He also is a former Iranian Ambassador to the UN (1971-1978). A widely published author of fiction and nonfiction, his Les neiges du Sinai won the Leopold Senghor Award in 1973.