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Islamaphobia And The Ideological Assault: From The Past To The Present Volume 1

PUBLISHER: Thaqafa Press © 2018

BINDING: Softcover, 191 pages, $16.00 USD

The Scope of this Book:

The time span covered in this work is rather ambitious, stretching from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia until today’s world; however, the hope is that the reader will be able to connect the dots and recognize the continuum of both the ideological assault and islamaphobia and the larger agenda driving it.

This work is divided into two parts:

The first volume discusses the incremental decline of Muslim civilization due to the gradual onslaught of foreign ideologies, which ultimately resulted in the calamities of the Crusades and Mongol invasions. It discusses how the dual threat of speculative theology and gnostic-mysticism eroded the roots of the tree of faith, making the community of believers prone and vulnerable as a result. A useful comparison between these formative influences in altering both Christianity and Islam is provided for further clariyand emphasis.

Volumes 2 discusses how the same ideologies that precipitated the decline of the Muslim world were the basis of Europe’s steady rise from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. This resulted in Europe imagining that they had discovered the answer to all of mans troubles, leading to the development of the social sciences and their exploitation in the service of empire and colonization. The humanist idealism and utopianism that this tyranny was predicated upon required a simultaneous demonization and dehumanization of the Muslim world. This phenomenon was a continuation of the anti-Islam narrative tracing back to the first Crusade. This demonization continues until is very day where Islam is conflated with terrorism and regression in the Western imagination, and the Muslim world is generationally nominated for liberation and a civilizing mission ad infinitum (again and again in the same way; forever) [pg. 11-12]

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