The clash of fundamentalisms: crusades, jihads and modernity

Part I: Mullahs and heretics. An atheist childhood

The origins of Islam

The empire of the world

Jerusalem, Jerusalem

Ottomanism

The joys of heresy

Women versus the eternal masculine

Part II: One hundred years of servitude. A spring memory

The roots of Wahhabism

The kingdom of corruption

Zionism, the first oil war, resistance

Marginal notes on the chapter of defeats

The anti-imperialism of fools

An ocean of terror

Part III: The nuclear wastelands of South Asia. The case of Anwar Shaikh

Plain tales from Pakistan

Afghanistan: between hammer and anvil

The story of Kashmir

Part IV: A clash of fundamentalisms. A short-course history of US imperialism

September surprise

Letter to a young Muslim

Appendix: On the Israeli-Arab war.