English Summary/英文概要： In 1993, political scientist Samuel Huntington turned conventional political wisdom on its head by arguing that future conflicts wouldn’t be between nations but between civilizations — notably, between the secular West and the fundamentalist Islamic world. At the same time, Eric S. Margolis was arguing the same point from a different position: that of a journalist reporting from within the Muslim world. American Raj is the culmination of Margolis’ years of boots-on-the-ground insight into the way the Muslim world really operates. It takes readers inside the thinking and worldview of anti-Western Islamic radicals throughout the Muslim world and identifies the historical, political, and religious factors that have played a major role in generating hostility toward the West. Employing the model of Britain’s imperialist hegemony in Asia, Margolis explores in fascinating detail whether the West risks a replay of the Raj experience or whether we face an entirely new world order.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1993年，政治学家Samuel Huntington推翻了传统的政治思维，他认为未来的冲突将存在于文化之间，而非国家之间，也即是说西方文化和伊斯兰教之间。与此同时，埃里克·马格里斯作为深入穆斯林世界调查的一位记者，也阐述了相同的观点。本书是作者多年亲身实地调查的结晶，深入探讨了穆斯林世界与西方世界敌对的根本原因，充分透析了这一情况的政治、宗教和历史原因。书中借历史上英帝国主义在亚洲的霸权行为的例子，与读者一同探讨美国是否会重演历史，抑或崭新的世界业已到来。(SJN)

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