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Postmodernity and the Emergence of Islamist Movements

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AhmedAkbar. Postmodernism and Islam, Predicament and Promise. Routledge, London [etc.] 1992. x, 294 pp. $15.95.
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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 February 2009

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
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International Review of Social History , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , April 1997 , pp. 79 - 90
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