Product Description

The attention of Americans suddenly focused on Islam and Muslims in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, and to many in the United States this felt unprecedented. But Islam and Muslims had dominated American public life once before, during the period of the Iranian revolution and hostage crisis, from 1979 to 1981. On both of these occasions, Americans found themselves targeted for reasons stemming from a militant interpretation of Islam. It was in response to that first heightened interest in Islam that Daniel Pipes wrote In the Path of God. His intention was to present an overview of the connection between in Islam and political power through history in a way that would explain the origins of the current crisis.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1306910 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09-11
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 373 pages

About the Author
Daniel Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum and a columnist for the New York Post and the Jerusalem Post. Among his books are The Long Shadow: Culture and Politics in the Middle East (available from Transaction), Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition, Friendly Tyrants: An American Dilemma, and The Rushdie Affair: The Novel, the Aftermath and the West.

Customer Reviews

Pipes is a genius!
I am reading as much by Daniel Pipes as I can.

He is a genius, a historian and a person out to save America from the dangers of Saudi Arabian terrorists.

a wonderful book, better then the newer one
Mr. Pipes, eminent scholear and great inflamicist of Islam most recently completed his book 'militant Islam reaches America' but this book is by far more scholaraly and gives a more complete picture of the Islamic world. This read has several shortcomings. Mr. Pipes attempts to survey many Islamic countries where Islam is the vast majority or the near majority. In these short paragraph length studies he does not touch on one subject that needs to be touched on, namely the fate of minorites in Muslim societies. He does not explain the ethnic cleansing carried out in many Muslim countries that helped create a homogeneity within nations like Turkey. Nevertheless he provides a wonderful appendix that includes a list of Muslim populations of countries throughout the world. What one will realize when reading this list is that the number of minority populations in a Muslim country is directly proportional to the time the country has been Muslim. I recommend this book wholeheartedly in light of our need to understand and critique the Islamic world. A good companion to 'The Rage and the Pride'.