A Genealogy of Evil: Anti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad - Rilegato

Patterson, David

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ISBN 10: 0521197473 ISBN 13: 9780521197472

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Riassunto

Based on extensive scrutiny of primary sources from Nazi and Jihadist ideologues, David Patterson argues that Jihadist anti-Semitism stems from Nazi ideology. This book challenges the idea that Jihadist anti-Semitism has medieval roots, identifying its distinctively modern characteristics and tracing interconnections that link the Nazis to the Muslim Brotherhood to the PLO, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda, the Sudan, the Iranian Islamic Republic, and other groups with an anti-Semitic worldview. Based on his close reading of numerous Jihadist texts, Patterson critiques their antisemitic teachings and affirms the importance of Jewish teaching, concluding that humanity needs the very Jewish teaching and testimony that the Jihadists advocate destroying.

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'In A Genealogy of Evil, David Patterson examines the texts of key contributors to the twentieth-century Islamist tradition, including Abdul Al'a Maududi, Haj Amin al-Husseini, Hassan al-Banna, and Sayyid Qutb, as well their successors in recent decades, and probes the influence, confluence, and parallels between their views and National Socialism. He offers readers an effective synthesis of the growing historical and social science writing about Islamism while adding a distinctive interpretation rooted in his understanding of theology. His discussions of martyrdom and attitudes toward death provide important conceptual clarification about similarities as well as differences between Nazism and Islamic Jihadism. Much research remains to be done on these issues. Patterson's work should serve as an important source in present and future debates and discussions.' Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland, College Park

'Patterson's extensive inquiry into the origins and spread of Islamic jihad ought to be wide[ly] read ... [He] ought to be congratulated for his thorough research and well-written narrative.' The Jerusalem Post

Descrizione del libro:

David Patterson argues that Jihadist anti-Semitism is distinctively modern and stems from Nazi ideology. Based on his close reading of numerous Jihadist texts, Patterson critiques their anti-Semitic teachings and affirms the importance of Jewish teaching, concluding that humanity needs the very Jewish teaching and testimony that the Jihadists advocate destroying.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521197473
• ISBN 13: 9780521197472
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 312