Is Al Qaeda Postmodern?
Richard Cohen Thursday, 1 March 2007
Faisal Devji, Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005). 184 pp. $25.00.
In today's academic climate, it was inevitable that someone would analyze radical Islam using the intellectual model of "postmodernism," a conceptual approach which, however familiar it may be, always arrives fresh and fashionably dressed. Faisal Devji does this in Landscapes of the Jihad, but his thesis goes quite beyond analytical method: he suggests the terrorists themselves are postmodern.
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