Gilbert Achcar

Bio:

Gilbert Achcar teaches politics and sociology at the University of Paris VIII. His most recent book is Eastern Cauldron: Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq in a Marxist Mirror (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2004).

Articles by this Author


Maxime Rodinson on Islamic "Fundamentalism"	With the death of Maxime Rodinson at the age of 89 on May 23, 2004, one of the last great figures disappeared in an exceptional lineage of Western scholars of Islam -- including Régis Blachère, Claude Cahen and Jacques Berque...	MER233