Apocalypse in Islam Review

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Apocalypse in Islam ReviewI have a detailed review of this book up on Aaron Zelin's Jihadology site, so I'll just give you the gist of it here...
I open with these two paragraphs:
Jean-Pierre Filiu's book, Apocalypse in Islam (University of California Press, 2011) makes a crucially important contribution to our understanding of current events - it illuminates not just one but a cluster of closely-related blind-spots in our current thinking, and it does so with scholarship and verve.
Al-Qaida's interest in acquiring nuclear weapons -- and Iran's - and the safety of Pakistan's nuclear materiel - and the situation in Jerusalem - depending how you count `em, there are a half dozen or so glaring world problems where one spark in the Mahdist underbrush might transform a critical situation. And yet as Ali Allawi put it in his talk to the Jamestown Foundation on Mahdism in Iraq a few years back, Mahdists ferments still tend to be "below our radar".
and close with this conclusion:
Filiu's book offers a powerful, accessible, and scholarly introduction to a set of critical issues that have largely escaped our notice until recently. Glenn Beck is about to thrust the topic of Mahdism before his core audience with an hour-long documentary this week, and the popular Christian fiction writer Joel Rosenberg's most recent novel is titled The Twelfth Imam - so Mahdism is seeping into popular awareness, particularly (and perhaps not surprisingly) in its Shi'ite form.
Filiu's book is well placed to serve as an antidote, both to the popular misrepresentations and overstatements of Rosenberg and Beck, and to the casual dismissal that has characterized much scholarly consideration of these topics. It is an important book - and though the year is less than a month old, will very likely wind up being my choice for book of the year.
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