Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: PART I Mullahs and Heretics -- 1 An atheist childhood -- 2 The origins of Islam -- 3 The empire of the world -- 4 Jerusalem, Jerusalem -- 5 Ottomanism -- 6 The joys of heresy -- 7 Women versus the eternal masculine --PART II One Hundred Years of Servitude -- 8 A spring memory -- 9 The roots of Wahhabism -- 10 The kingdom of corruption -- 11 Zionism, the First Oil War, resistance -- 12 Marginal notes on the chapter of defeats -- 13 The anti-imperialism of fools -- 14 An ocean of terror --PART III The Nuclear Wastelands of South Asia -- 15 The case ofAnwar Shaikh -- 16 Plain tales from Pakistan -- 17 Afghanistan: between hammer and anvil -- 18 The story of Kashmir --PART IV A Clash of Fundamentalisms -- 19 A short-course history of US imperialism -- 20 September surprise -- 21 Letter to a young Muslim --Appendix On the Israeli-Arab war -- Isaac Deutscher.