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Jihad : the trail of political Islam / Gilles Kepel ; translated by Anthony F. Roberts.

By: Kepel, Gilles
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002Description: viii, 454 pages : maps ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0674008774Subject(s): Islam and politics | Jihad | Islam -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 320.5/5/0917671 LOC classification: BP173.7 | .K453 2002Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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