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Thomas W. Simons, Jr. is Consulting Professor, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University. He was the Ambassador to Pakistan from 1996 to 1998.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Simons analyzes the challenges faced by the Islamic world as it has struggled over the centuries to adapt to modernization. The volume opens with a survey of the first thousand years of Islam, when its adherents acted as a major force of globalization. Coverage extends to a discussion of the influence of Islamic extremists in the contemporary Muslim world. The text is based upon lectures delivered by the author at Stanford University in 2002. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

University of Virginia, Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Fomer ambassador to Libya and Indonesia and the Philippines - Newsom,David,D.

Today, in an era in which the world of Islam is suddenly in the forefront of public concern, this impressive application of history should help readers to an intelligent understanding of the dynamic and, at times, conflicting forces at work in that world.