online archive
4:00PM
NOV 16 2007
Fantasies of reviving the caliphate
From The Claremont Review of Books, Stanley Kurtz reviews Resistance and Control in Pakistan; Islam Under Siege: Living Dangerously in a Post-Honour World; and Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization by Akbar S. Ahmed. Working for a western magazine in Iran, Maziar Bahari finds that he has acquired some surprisingly close acquaintances — from the ministry of intelligence, and strangely, they are all called Mr Mohammadi. From Prospect, ghosts of the caliphate: Fantasies of reviving the caliphate reveal a deep crisis of legitimacy within Sunni Islam. Risk in the Arab world: A distorted balance between risk and reward inhibits the Arab world's economic and social development. It's the politics, stupid: Saudi Arabia will only become a true ally to the U.S. in the war on terror through political reform. Arabian Heights: Oil-rich Dubai raises its international profile with towers meant to be icons — but icons of what? A review of Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace by Avi Shlaim. A History of Nonviolence: Palestinian leader Naim Ateek has long advocated nonviolence as the only way to secure peace between Israel and Palestine. So why is he so despised by hard-line Israel supporters? The prospects for a two-state solution have never seemed dimmer. So why does veteran peacenik Uri Avnery remain so hopeful? From Jewcy, an article on the five strangest solutions to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
