Title: This book does not live up to the promise of its title
Product review: This is an extremely disappointing read in every respect. It lacks insight, relevance, and profundity. You won't need the book's Afterword to tell you this is simply a sloppy, admixtured rehash of three twenty-year-old speeches attached to a post-September 11 Preface; you will have figured it out on your own after reading, for the third time in the same volume, about the output of a certain Turkish printing press, the importance of hats in Islamic society, or the place of European miniatures in Islamic art. If I learned anything from this book, it was quickly forgotten (probably buried under all the resentment at having been duped by the title). For true relevance and actual insight, try "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order" by Samuel P. Huntington.
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