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

By:

Kepel, Gilles

Contributor(s):

Roberts, Anthony E [trl]

Material type:

TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: London : New York ; I.B. Tauris, c2006.Edition: 4th edDescription: 454 p. : 23 cmISBN:

9781845112578

Uniform titles:

Jihad : expansion et déclin de l'Islamisme. English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

320.5

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Marbella International University Centre Library	320.5 KEP jih (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	10771

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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