More recent editions contain an afterword by Malise Ruthven bringing the history up to the present day including the Invasion of Iraq.
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Considerable rigour is given to explanations of the rise of Arab nationalism, Salafism, Ba'athism and Islamism, although, as Ruthven notes in his afterword, much of the rise of the latter ideology took place after the book was published.
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