A Metahistory of the Clash of Civilisations: Us and Them Beyond Orientalism

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

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April, 2011
Cloth, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-70212-6
$45.00

"This passionate and elegant work is a vigorous antidote to a constellation of discourses steeped in the Weltanschauung that the title of Samuel Huntington's infamous book encapsulates so well. Arshin Adib-Moghaddam's reflections are a stimulating contribution to Edward Said's legacy of radical critique of all essentialist constructions of otherness." — Gilbert Achcar, author (with Noam Chomsky) of Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy

"What Arshin Adib-Moghaddam has done is to establish an exceptionally powerful refutation of clashing civilizations. Eloquently, rigorously, and imaginatively, he traces and critiques genealogies of binary and simple oppositional thought and argues that the future of the world depends on our accepting and understanding complexities and internal oppositions." — Stephen Chan, School of Oriental and African Studies, 2010 International Studies Association (ISA) Eminent Scholar in Global Development

"This magnum opus is not only very impressive and convincing but also a topical and highly welcome study of a true polyhistory, contributing to a range of important debates in a variety of academic fields. Arshin Adib-Moghaddam is a scholar who deploys an impressive range of skills." — Morten Valbjørn, University of Aarhus

Related Subjects

• History
• Middle East Studies

About the Author

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam is Reader in Comparative Politics and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of Iran in World Politics: The Question of the Islamic Republic and The International Politics of the Persian Gulf: A Cultural Genealogy.

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