Jihad : the trail of political Islam / [print]
Gilles Kepel ; translated by Anthony F. Roberts.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2002.
- viii, 454 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographies 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 DelawareCLINE -- 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.
"The late twentieth century has witnessed the emergence of an unexpected and extraordinary phenomenon: Islamist political movements. Beginning in the early 1970s, militants revolted against the regimes in power throughout the Muslim world and exacerbated political conflicts everywhere. Their jihad, or "Holy Struggle," aimed to establish a global Islamic state based solely on a strict interpretation of the Koran. Religious ideology proved a cohesive force, gathering followers ranging from students and the young urban poor to middle-class professionals."--Book cover.