Conflicts Forum

Commentary by Alastair Crooke
New Global Studies Vol. 3 : Issue 2, Article 4. Published by The Berkeley Electronic Press
BEIRUT – Many commentators on Islam make the same mistake: They instinctively assume that Muslim resistance to western globalisation reflects the inability of Muslims to accept the social and structural change that ‘modernity’ requires. Muslims, in this […]

By Alastair Crooke, New Perspectives Quarterly, June 2, 2009
Most Western analysts of political Islam make the same mistake. They instinctively assume that conflict with the West has mainly to do with specific foreign policies, particularly of the U.S. with respect to Israel, the Arab world and Iran, and, if those changed, all would be well.
In […]

By Rami G. Khouri, The Daily Star, April 22, 2009
Once in a while a wave of ideas sweeps across societies and countries, and when combined with political and social activism it changes global history for a time. We are living through such wave now in the global Islamist movement that has swept across much of […]

Start the Week, BBC Radio 4, February 23, 2009
Alastair Crooke recently appeared on Start the Week, presented by Andrew Marr, where he discussed his recently published book, Resistance: The Essence of the Islamist Revolution.
The complete broadcast can be heard here (in RealAudio).
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A Conflicts Forum Monograph, by Professor Ahmad Moussalli*, January, 2009
This essay constructs and deconstructs three main discourses created by different and opposing trends in modern Islamic thought that are normally and mistakenly lumped together as Islamism, fundamentalism, salafism, neo-salafism, Wahhabism, jihadism, political Islam, Islamic radicalism and others. I will compare and contrast between them by […]

Resistance: The Essence of the Islamist Revolution
By Alastair Crooke
Pluto Press, February 2009
Available at bookshops in the UK, at Amazon (UK) and Amazon (US).
Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker magazine:
‘Crooke’s mission in this erudite and most readable book is to reassure America and the rest of the world that Hamas, Hezbollah and the seemingly menacing Islamic […]