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How long does it take to read Good Muslim, Bad Muslim?

America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror

Mahmood Mamdani

Good Muslim, Bad Muslim by Mahmood Mamdani takes about 5 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 34 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2004. 304 pages, about 83,600 words.

12 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 9 hours 17 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 34 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 29 minutes

The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"Dispels the idea of 'good' (secular, westernized) and 'bad' (premodern, fanatical) Muslims, pointing out that these judgments refer to political rather than cultural or religious identities ... Argues that political Islam emerged as the result of a modern encounter with Western power, and that the terrorist movement at the center of Islamist politics is an even more recent phenomenon, one that followed America's embrace of proxy war after its defeat in Vietnam"--jacket.

Subjects: Drug traffic, Islam and politics, Political aspects of Drug traffic, Political aspects of Terrorism, Causes, Cold War

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