.,.".should be required reading for all participants in international relations and public policy. Certainly everyone in the State Department should study this work closely. It is unquestionably the best book on the subject ever published. The National Committee on American Foreign Policy should be congratulated for sponsoring this research. Fereydoun Hoveyda has written the most sensible, analytic book about the significance and role of Militant Islamic Fundamentalism to appear, so far. He has explained much that the shallow thinkers of earlier studies have failed to comprehend. As was said at the beginning, this volume should be required reading for all supposed Islamic experts in the State Department and for all those who proclaim their wisdom on the matter of terrorism."-Jewish Press
?....should be required reading for all participants in international relations and public policy. Certainly everyone in the State Department should study this work closely. It is unquestionably the best book on the subject ever published. The National Committee on American Foreign Policy should be congratulated for sponsoring this research. Fereydoun Hoveyda has written the most sensible, analytic book about the significance and role of Militant Islamic Fundamentalism to appear, so far. He has explained much that the shallow thinkers of earlier studies have failed to comprehend. As was said at the beginning, this volume should be required reading for all supposed Islamic experts in the State Department and for all those who proclaim their wisdom on the matter of terrorism.?-Jewish Press
?[i]s a study of the perversion of Islam through bellicose, fundamentalist interpretations. Historical background of the first fundamentalist movements in the 12th Century is given, and an t effort to look at Islam in a modernizing world is made.?-Middle East Journal
?Hoveyda's Broken Crescent is of major importance to all those who wish to comprehend the roots and the scope of militant Islamic fundamentalism in our present time as well as events in Iran....The book is well worth the money you will spend.?-Chanteh
?This solid, easily readable book discribes the threat of "militant Islamic fundamentalism" on several levels.?-Choice
"Yis a study of the perversion of Islam through bellicose, fundamentalist interpretations. Historical background of the first fundamentalist movements in the 12th Century is given, and an t effort to look at Islam in a modernizing world is made."-Middle East Journal
"[i]s a study of the perversion of Islam through bellicose, fundamentalist interpretations. Historical background of the first fundamentalist movements in the 12th Century is given, and an t effort to look at Islam in a modernizing world is made."-Middle East Journal
"Hoveyda's Broken Crescent is of major importance to all those who wish to comprehend the roots and the scope of militant Islamic fundamentalism in our present time as well as events in Iran....The book is well worth the money you will spend."-Chanteh
"This solid, easily readable book discribes the threat of "militant Islamic fundamentalism" on several levels."-Choice
...".should be required reading for all participants in international relations and public policy. Certainly everyone in the State Department should study this work closely. It is unquestionably the best book on the subject ever published. The National Committee on American Foreign Policy should be congratulated for sponsoring this research. Fereydoun Hoveyda has written the most sensible, analytic book about the significance and role of Militant Islamic Fundamentalism to appear, so far. He has explained much that the shallow thinkers of earlier studies have failed to comprehend. As was said at the beginning, this volume should be required reading for all supposed Islamic experts in the State Department and for all those who proclaim their wisdom on the matter of terrorism."-Jewish Press
