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{ 2008 02 05 }

Review of New Book on Muslims in Europe

Joan Acocella reviews a new book by David Levering Lewis, God’s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe (Norton, 2008) noting that, “If, as Edward Said wrote, the old history books were covertly ideological, the current ones tend to be overtly ideological, as each new generation of scholars rides in to rescue supposedly worthy peoples who were wronged by earlier scholarship and, in their time, by axe-wielding conquerors.” (”A Better Place,” The New Yorker, February 4, 2008)

Posted by Ted Thornton on Tuesday, February 5, 2008, at 2:05 pm. Filed under Islam, Islam and the West. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

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