AuthorKepel, Gilles
TitleJihad : the trail of political Islam / Gilles Kepel ; translated by Anthony F. Roberts
Imprint Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2002
Descript viii, 454 p. ; 24 cm

CONTENT

Cultural Revolution -- Islam in the Late 1960s -- Building Petro-Islam on the Ruins of Arab Nationalism -- Islamism in Egypt, Malaysia, and Pakistan -- Khomeni's Revolution and Its Legacy -- Jihad in Afghanistan and Intifada in Palestine -- Islamization in Algeria and the Sudan -- Fatwa and the Veil in Europe -- From the Gulf War to the Taliban Jihad -- Failure to Graft Jihad on Bosnia's Civil War -- Logic of Massacre in the Second Algerian War -- Threat of Terrorism in Egypt -- Osama bin Laden and the War Against the West -- Hamas, Isael, Arafat, and Jordan -- Forced Secularization of Turkish Islamists


SUBJECT

  1. Islam and politics
  2. Jihad
  3. Islam -- 20th century

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