Jihad :
Kepel, Gilles
Jihad : the trail of political Islam / Gilles Kepel ; translated by Anthony E. Roberts. - 4th ed. - London : New York ; I.B. Tauris, c2006. - 454 p. : 23 cm.
Includes index.
Pt. 1. Expansion --
1. A cultural revolution --
2. Islam in the late 1960s --
3. Building Petro-Islam on the ruins of Arab nationalism --
4. Islamism in Egypt, Malaysia, and Pakistan --
5. Khomeini's revolution and its legacy --
6. Jihad in Afghanistan and Intifada in Palestine --
7. Islamization in Algeria and the Sudan --
8. The fatwa and the veil in Europe --
Pt. 2. Decline --
9. From the Gulf War to the Taliban Jihad --
10. The failure to graft Jihad on Bosnia's Civil War --
11. The logic of massacre in the Second Algerian War --
12. The threat of terrorism in Egypt --
13. Osama bin Laden and the war against the West --
14. Hamas, Israel, Arafat, and Jordan --
15. The forced secularization of Turkish Islamists.
In recent years, the world order has been rocked by an explosive, unexpected and extraordinary phenomenon: political Islam. Beginning in the early 1970s, militants revolted against the regimes in power across the Muslim world and exacerbated political conflicts internationally. Their jihad - or 'Holy Struggle' - aimed to establish a global Islamic state based solely on a strict interpretation of the Qur'an.
9781845112578
Jihad
Islam and state
Islam and politics
Islamic fundamentalism
320.5
Jihad : the trail of political Islam / Gilles Kepel ; translated by Anthony E. Roberts. - 4th ed. - London : New York ; I.B. Tauris, c2006. - 454 p. : 23 cm.
Includes index.
Pt. 1. Expansion --
1. A cultural revolution --
2. Islam in the late 1960s --
3. Building Petro-Islam on the ruins of Arab nationalism --
4. Islamism in Egypt, Malaysia, and Pakistan --
5. Khomeini's revolution and its legacy --
6. Jihad in Afghanistan and Intifada in Palestine --
7. Islamization in Algeria and the Sudan --
8. The fatwa and the veil in Europe --
Pt. 2. Decline --
9. From the Gulf War to the Taliban Jihad --
10. The failure to graft Jihad on Bosnia's Civil War --
11. The logic of massacre in the Second Algerian War --
12. The threat of terrorism in Egypt --
13. Osama bin Laden and the war against the West --
14. Hamas, Israel, Arafat, and Jordan --
15. The forced secularization of Turkish Islamists.
In recent years, the world order has been rocked by an explosive, unexpected and extraordinary phenomenon: political Islam. Beginning in the early 1970s, militants revolted against the regimes in power across the Muslim world and exacerbated political conflicts internationally. Their jihad - or 'Holy Struggle' - aimed to establish a global Islamic state based solely on a strict interpretation of the Qur'an.
9781845112578
Jihad
Islam and state
Islam and politics
Islamic fundamentalism
320.5