Middle East Research and Information Project

Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

Gilbert Achcar

Gilbert Achcar is Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London.

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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, to mention only Rodinson’s fellow Frenchmen. Rodinson belonged to this g

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