The Borders of Islam-Exploring Samuel Huntington’s Faultlines, from Al-Andalus to Virtual Ummah

Authors : Mesut Özcan

Pages : 219-222

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Publication Date : 2016-07-14

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Several academic and popular articles appeared about late Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations article and his book in the 1990s and the terrorist attacks on 9/11 revived the argument and the debates on these works. Although numerous critics and praises about the argument raised since the first publication of the article, the discussions were further fuelled by 11 September 2001 attacks in New York, the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the bombings in Madrid on 11 March 2004 and in London 7 July 2005, the cartoons crisis in Denmark, and lately the referenda in Switzerland on minarets. The Borders of Islam edited by Stig Jarle Hansen, Atle Mesoy and Tuncay Kardaş and published by Hurst Publishers in 2009 is an important and critical book focusing on the argument of Huntington on problematic borders between different civilizations.
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