The Man Who Was Friday: Global Islamism after Unipolarity
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What is the relationship between the rise and fall of U.S. global power and the ebb and flow of radical Islamic terrorism? Our generic notion of Islam is a product of nineteenth-century pan-Islamic thinkers more than it is of Orientalists. We could add that it is suited to a modern world in which abstract conceptions of collective agency reflect a global capitalist economy which is itself rooted in highly abstracted categories of capital and labor. It is as a result of modernity that Islam shift
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