Beschreibung:
Years of Upheaval discusses 'Axial periods' in history; years that witnessed such fundamental reversals in history as to make the world turn upside down and inaugurate a new era. Raphael Israeli sees the post-1989 period as such a period in Islam. He explores events in the Islamic world since the end of the 1980s, and during the 1990s and their aftermath, particularly following the Iranian Islamic Revolution, the Rushdie Affair, and the death of Khumeini.
Acknowledgments Introduction: The New Axial Era in Islamic and World Events 1. World Upheavals in the New Islamic Axial Era and Their Impact on Islam 2. The New Tripolar World - The United States, Russia, and China 3. The Politization of Islam, the Rise of Islamic Radicalism 4. Nuclear Islam: Pakistan and Iran and Its Satellites 5. The Arab Revolt and Its Islamic Antidote 6. The Islamic Axis of Change in the Midst of Conflict 7. The Islamic Watershed 2 Conclusions: Watershed toward Growth or Down to the Abyss? Bibliography Analytical Index: Names, Places, Terms, and Concepts