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_ Introduction — Resisting the resisting The Empire — The end of Islamic ideology — Blindness and insight — Islam and globalization — The Shi'i passion play — Liberation theodicy — Malcolm X as a Muslim revolutionary — Conclusion: Prolegomena to a future liberation theodicy.

This book is a radical piece of counter-intuitive thinking on the clash of civilizations theory and global politics. The author argues that after 9/11 we have not seen a new phase in a long running confrontation between Islam and the West, but that such cataegories have collapsed. The West is no longer a unified actor and Islam is ideologically exhausted in its confontation with colonialism. Rather we are seeing the emergence of the US as a lone superpower, and a confrontation between a form of imperial globalized capital and a new Islamic theodicy.