The book about Islamism and Fundamentalism reveals the social currents among Muslims, religion and pluralism in the era of the Medina State, Islamic radicalism and fundamentalist thoughts that characterize some landscapes in Indonesia, Southeast Asia, even the world at the beginning of this century. Of course, people will not be able to appreciate the contribution of this book without understanding its social context, space and time in which the various fundamental issues are explored in this book, including how the radical Islamists bring their ideas to the surface and public spaces. Written clearly and brightly, this book provides important information about the battle of ideas between fundamental Islam versus liberal Islam, Islamic radicalism in Southeast Asia and the lessons and wisdom from the Medina State in the context of the Indonesian Muslim's life in the early 21st century...
In Sea of Faith, O’Shea chronicles both the meeting of minds and the collisions of armies that marked the interaction of Cross and Crescent in the Middle Ages-the better to understand their apparently intractable conflict today. For all the great and everlasting moments of cultural interchange and tolerance-in Cordoba, Palermo, Constantinople-the ultimate "geography of belief " was decided on the battlefield. O’Shea vividly recounts seven pivotal battles between the forces of Christianity and Islam that shaped the Mediterranean world-from the loss of the Christian Middle East to the Muslims at Yarmuk (Turkey) in 636 to the stemming of the seemingly unstoppable Ottoman tide at Malta in 1565. In between, the battles raged round the Mediterranean, from Poitiers in France and Hattin in the Holy Land during the height of the Crusades, to the famed contest for Constantinople in 1453 that signaled the end of Byzantium. As much as the armies were motivated by belief, their exploits were in.. 
