New Jerusalems: Reflections on Islam, Fundamentalism and the Rushdie Affair

by Daniel Easterman

This collection of essays and occasional pieces have one unifying theme, the making of myth. This book looks at myths such as the Western myth of Islam and the exotic Orient, the Islamic myth of the decadent West, the myth of a plot centred around Salman Rushdie to denigrate the sacred personages of Islam, the utopian myths of fundamentalist preachers and the gurus of the new religious movements, the myth of causes in whose path death is perfect freedom. By the author of "The Seventh Sanctuary".

144 pages, Paperback

First published February 8, 1993

About the author

A pseudonym used by Denis M. MacEoin (aka Jonathan Aycliffe).