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The Flight of the Intellectuals -

AuthorPaul Berman
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Bermanâ€™s investigation of the history and nature of the Islamist movement includes some surprising revelations. In examining Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, he shows the rise of an immense and often violent worldview, elements of which survives today in the brigades of al-Qaeda and Hamas. Berman also unearths the shocking story of al-Bannaâ€™s associate, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who collaborated personally with Adolf Hitler to incite Arab support of the Nazisâ€™ North African campaign. Echoes of the Grand Muftiâ€™s Nazified Islam can be heard among the followers of al-Banna even today. In a gripping and stylish narrative Berman also shows the legacy of these political traditions, most importantly by focusing on a single philosopher, who happens to be Hassan al-Bannaâ€™s grandson, Oxford professor Tariq Ramadanâ€”a figure widely celebrated in the West as a â€œmoderateâ€ despite his troubling ties to the Islamist movement. Looking closely into what Ramadan has actually written and said, Berman contrasts the reality of Ramadan with his image in the press. In doing so, THE FLIGHT OF THE INTELLECTUALS sheds light on a number of modern issuesâ€”on the massively reinvigorated anti-Semitism of our own time, on a newly fashionable turn against womenâ€™s rights, and on the difficulties we have in discussing terrorismâ€”and presents a stunning commentary about the modern mediaâ€™s peculiar inability to detect and analyze some of the most dangerous ideas in contemporary society.

Publisher N A
Publication Date 27/04/2010
Number of Pages 100
Binding Hard Back
ISBN 9781933633510
Category Non Fiction , Current Affairs

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