MJ Akbar THE SHADE OF SWORDS First Edition Signed
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MJ Akbar THE SHADE OF SWORDS First Edition Signed
First edition, first print hardback of THE SHADE OF SWORDS: Jihad and the Conflict Between Islam and Christianity by M. J. Akbar and published by Routledge, London, in 2002. Signed by Akbar on the title page.The book is in near fine condition (Clean green cloth boards with silver lettering on spine) with minor shelf wear to the dust jacket, which is not price clipped. Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.
M.J. Akbar, founder and editor-in-chief of The Asian Age, a multi-edition daily newspaper, is a leading Indian journalist and author. The Shade of Swords is his fifth book, after four were published to great international acclaim: Nehru: The Making of India, India: The Siege Within, Riot after Riot and Kashmir: Behind the Vale. During the 1970s and 1980s he successfully launched and established a weekly news magazine and a daily newspaper. He briefly interrupted his career in journalism, to enter the Indian Parliament in November 1989 as an elected representative. He returned to writing and editing in 1993.
"The Shade of Swords traces the origins of jihad in the struggle against oppression that was part of the earliest consciousness of Muslims. Travelling across centuries and continents, from the triumphant rise of Islam under Prophet Muhammad to the depression of defeat in the First Crusade, through the renewal of Saladin to the rise and fall of the Ottoman and Mughal empires and the raw passions of Afghanistan and the Indian subcontinent, M.J. Akbars gripping story explains how jihad thrives on complex and shifting notions of persecution, victory and sacrifice. The conflict between Islam and Christianity began from the time of the Prophet himself and has acquired myriad shapes over fourteen hundred years: in doctrine, dialectics, literature, culture, and of course on the battlefield, from the fall of Jerusalem to the Caliph Omar in 637, to the presence of British and American troops in Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2002. The anger that is visible on the streets of the Muslim world today is fuelled by a perception of injustice and exploitation by the West.
Akbar observed in an essay written just after the collapse of the Soviet Union: The Wests next confrontation is definitely going to come from the Muslim world. It is in the sweep of Islamic nations from the Maghreb to Pakistan that the struggle for a new world order will begin. The Shade of Swords narrates why and now.
Includes A glossary, chronology, reading list, and table of biographical sketches.
272 pages.
ISBN: 0 415 28470 8
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