Islam and the myth of confrontation: religion and politics in the Middle East

Abstract

Part 1 Interpreting the Middle East: the Middle East and international politics the Iranian revolution in comparative perspective the Gulf War 1990-91. Part 2 Myths of confrontation: and the west - Threat of Islam or Threat to Islam? human rights and the Islamic Middle East - universalism and relativism anti-Muslimism and contemporary politics - one ideology or many? Orientalism and its critics.