Years of Upheaval: Axial Changes in Islam Since 1989

Citation:

Israeli R. Years of Upheaval: Axial Changes in Islam Since 1989.; 2016.

Abstract:

Years of Upheaval discusses "Axial periods" in history; years that witnessed such fundamental reversals in history as to make the world turn upside down and inaugurate a new era. Raphael Israeli sees the post 1989 period as such a period in Islam.

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