Introduction to the paperback edition -- Prologue -- Mullahs and heretics An atheist childhood The origins of Islam The empire of the world Jerusalem, Jerusalem Ottomanism The joys of heresy Women versus the eternal masculine -- One hundred years of servitude A spring memory The roots of Wahhabism The kingdom of corruption Zionism, the first oil war, resistance Marginal notes on the chapter of defeats The anti-imperialism of fools An ocean of terror -- The nuclear wastelands of South Asia The case of Anwar Shaikh Plain tales from Pakistan Afghanistan : between hammer and anvil The story of Kashmir The colour khaki -- A clash of fundamentalisms A short-course history of US imperialism September surprise Letter to a young Muslim -- Epilogue : the road to Bali A small town in Java Islam on the equator A tropical gulag An island made secure -- Appendix: On the Israeli-Arab war / Isaac Deutscher