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ajiss-1798	Sabet, Amr G. E.	The New Politics of Islam: Pan-Islamic Foreign Policy in a World of States by Naveed S. Sheikh (London: Routledge Curzon, 2003. 206 pages.)	2004.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1141	43	45	One cannot but won- der if such is how a work about Islam ought to be, for what is at stake here is not Sheikh’s critique of Muslim states’ policies or of the OIC (much of which is sound, warranted, and insightful), but basically the consolidation of the power hierarchy’s binary relationship between social theory and Islamic narratives. Moreover, while some countries have fared better than others in guarding their independence, Sheikh lumps together Saudi Arabia, which “owes its very existence … to Western policy” (p. 46) and the client state of Pakistan on the one hand, 112 The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 21:2 and Iran on the other, as cases of failed Islamic policies.	cache/ajiss-1798.pdf	txt/ajiss-1798.txt