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and its subsequent decline. The resulting posture, "inconsolable in its destitution", writes Meddeb, gave root to modern
Islamic fundamentalism, a fact embodied by the modern Arab states' attachment to the archaic, Manichaean laws of "official Islam." The book also explores the tragic consequences
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