Jihad The Trail of Political Islam

Name: Jihad The Trail of Political Islam
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ISBN: 9780674010901

ISBN-10: 0674010906

ISBN-13: 9780674010901

Edition: 2002 (Reprint)

Authors: Gilles Kepel, Anthony F. Roberts

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The late twentieth century has witnessed the emergence of an unexpected and extraordinary phenomenon: Islamist political movements. Beginning in the early 1970s, militants revolted against the regimes in power throughout the Muslim world and exacerbated political conflicts everywhere. Their jihad, or "Holy Struggle," aimed to establish a global Islamic state based solely on a strict interpretation of the Koran. Religious ideology proved a cohesive force, gathering followers ranging from students and the young urban poor to middle-class professionals. After an initial triumph with the Islamic revolution in Iran, the movement waged jihad against the USSR in Afghanistan, proclaiming for the…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/31/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Gilles Kepel is Professor and Chair of Middle East Studies at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris.



Introduction



Expansion



A Cultural Revolution



Islam in the Late 1960s



Building Petro-Islam on the Ruins of Arab Nationalism



Islamism in Egypt, Malaysia, and Pakistan



Khomeini's Revolution and Its Legacy



Jihad in Afghanistan and Intifada in Palestine



Islamization in Algeria and the Sudan



The Fatwa and the Veil in Europe



Decline



From the Gulf War to the Taliban Jihad



The Failure to Graft Jihad on Bosnia's Civil War



The Logic of Massacre in the Second Algerian War



The Threat of Terrorism in Egypt



Osama bin Laden and the War against the West



Hamas, Israel, Arafat, and Jordan



The Forced Secularization of Turkish Islamists


Conclusion


Notes


Glossary


Maps


Abbreviations


Index