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.
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Jihad Islam and state Islam and politics Islamic fundamentalism