ISLA 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter x: Eqbal Ahmad, September 11 Attacks, Edward Said
2 May 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Sammuel huntington"s article the clash of civilizations intended to supply. Americans with an original thesis about a new phase in world politics after the end of the cold war. He said: it is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. the clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. There are many labels, generalizations, and cultural assertions. There are boundaries between west and islam but also between past and present. Eqbal ahmad concluded that modern islamists are concerned with power not with the soul. Increased presence of muslims all over europe and the us. Islam is no longer on the fringes of the west but at its center. The clash of ignorance is a theory concerning sources of tension and hostility that are generally perceived to characterize the relationship between western and muslim societies.
