A very rare book, a true relic of the former Cold War.
''Although the sentiment of international Muslim solidarity is intrinsic to the faith of Islam, it took no organized form until modern times…
The initiative for an organization of Muslims states ran aground, however, as Egypt moved increasingly toward a revolutionary Pan-Arabism under its leader Gamal Abdel Nasser. By the mid-1950s Egypt's secular Pan-Arabism had become the dominant ideology in the Arab world. In the name of this ideology Egypt suppressed the Muslim Brotherhood at home and launched a cold war against Saudi Arabia, culminating in Egyptian military intervention in Yemen.
Saudi Arabia, under siege by Pan-Arab Egypt, responded by developing a rival Pan-Islam around which it rallied other besieged regimes and the Muslim Brotherhood. For this purpose the Saudi government sponsored the establishment in 1962 of the Mecca-based Muslim World League, which built a worldwide network of Muslim clients…
Beginning in 1964, Egypt responded by organizing congresses of Egyptian and foreign ulama under the auspices of al-Azhar's Academy of Islamic Researches. These rival bodies then convened a succession of dueling congresses in Mecca and Cairo, each claiming the sole prerogative of defining Islam in such as way as to legitimate Saudi or Egyptian policy.
Israel's 1967 defeat of the combined Arab armies and annexation of East Jerusalem eroded faith in the brand of Pan-Arabism championed by Egypt [and Soviet Union]."
Kramer, Martin . "Congresses." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World. Oxford Islamic Studies Online
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https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4806&context=open_access_etds
Cairo, March, 1964, 301 p., soft covers, good condition; very scarce copy.
Price: USD 1,200.00