Enemy in the Mirror

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Enemy in the Mirror is written by Roxanne Leslie Euben and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0195796489 (ISBN 10) and 9780195796483 (ISBN 13).

A firm grasp of Islamic fundamentalism has often eluded western political observers many of whom view it in relation to social and economic upheaval or explain it away as an irrational reaction to modernity. Here Roxanne Euben makes new sense of this belief system by revealing it as a critique of and rebuttal to rationalist discourse and post enlightenment political theories. A comparison between Islamic fundamentalism and various western critiques of rationalism yields formerly unchartedconnections between western and Islamic political thought allowing the author to reclaim an understanding of political theory as inherently comparative. Her arguments bear on broad questions about the methods westerners employ to understand movements and ideas that presuppose nonrational transcendent truths. This text draws on different diciplines, including postmodernist and critical theory, comparative politics, and anthropology, to examine Islamic fundamentalisim. It compares it with western critiques on rationalism, revealing connections between Western and Islamic political thought.