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Political Islam from Muhammad to Ahmadinejad
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Political Islam from Muhammad to Ahmadinejad REVIEW OF JOSEPH M. SKELLY, ED. Political Islam from Muhammad to Ahmadinejad (Santa Barbara: Praeger Security International, 2009) 281 pages, $50 hardcover
In 2001, Martin Kramer published a book that generated intense debate among Middle East experts. Suggestively entitled Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America, the book condemned what the author saw as the politicization-either by Third World biases or apologists for radical ideologies from the region-and decline in expertise in the field. Kramer, a Princeton-educated expert on medieval Islam who has divided his career between Israel and the United …
