Faith at War
A Journey on the Frontlines of Islam, from Baghdad to Timbuktu
New York : Picador, 2006.
Format: Book
Edition: First Picador edition, revised and with a new afterword.
Description: 320 pages : maps ; 21 cm
A Washington Post Book World Rave for 2005
In the aftermath of 9/11, Yaroslav Trofimov spent three years crisscrossing the Islamic world to create this unprecedented report. Mingling with ordinary Muslims, prominent clerics, and heads of state alike, he paints a ground-level picture of Islamic life as it is being changed by the Western war on terror. A sensitive, provocative portrait of a critical period in Muslim history, Faith at War introduces surprising ties between the Islamic world and our own.
Contents:
Saudi Arabia : Abdel Wahhab's sons -- Saudi Arabia : Chuck E. Cheese and Richard the Lion Heart -- Tunisia : teaching Freud to the mullahs -- Yemen : you're here to pinpoint air strikes against our mosque -- Kuwait : to Tora Bora and back -- Iraq : tell Mr. Bush that I have dirty clothes -- Iraq : one Saddam for every neighborhood -- Iraq : we don't count their bodies -- Iraq : even if you turn this country into heaven -- Afghanistan : the brandy of Kabul -- Afghanistan : why are you afraid of the soldiers? -- Lebanon : even the goats come from Hezbollah -- Mali : a ballot box in Timbuktu -- Bosnia : all these books, I got them from the Arabs -- Glossary of religious and political terms.
Subjects:
Trofimov, Yaroslav -- Travel -- Islamic countries.
Public opinion -- Islamic countries.
Muslims -- Attitudes.
Islamic countries -- Description and travel.
United States -- Foreign public opinion, Muslim.
Trofimov, Yaroslav -- Travel -- Islamic countries.
Public opinion -- Islamic countries.
Muslims -- Attitudes.
Islamic countries -- Description and travel.
United States -- Foreign public opinion, Muslim.
ISBN:
0312425112
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