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The receding shadow of the prophet : the rise and fall of radical political Islam /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Takeyh, Ray, 1966-
Other Authors: Gvosdev, Nikolas K., 1969-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.
Subjects:
Islam and politics > Islamic countries.
Religion and politics > Islamic countries.
Islamic countries > Politics and government.
Islamic fundamentalism > Islamic countries.
Islam > 21st century.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Islamist challenge
  • Islamism versus Muslim politics
  • The Islamist outlook
  • Attractions and pitfalls of Islamism
  • 2: Iran: the Islamist state and the reformist agenda
  • Revolution and reform
  • Reform's real track record
  • A Civil War in the right
  • The new Iran?
  • 3: Islamism in Algeria: a history of hope and agony
  • The growing political and social gaps
  • The evolution of political Islam in Algeria
  • The rise and fall of the Islamic salvation front (FIS)
  • Whither Algeria?
  • 4: Egypt: the struggle for a nation's soul
  • Nasser and the Muslim brotherhood
  • Killing Pharoah
  • The Egyptian stalemate
  • Islamism and moderation in Egypt
  • 5: Islamism in the former Yugoslavia
  • Islam and nationality in Yugoslavia: a general overview
  • Muslims, Islam, and the war in Bosnia, 1990-2002
  • Albanians, Islam, and Kosovo, 1974-1999
  • Did the Balkans become an Islamist beachhead?
  • 6: From the Red star to the green crescent?
  • Islamism in the former Soviet Union
  • The shadow of the crescent? Assumptions about Islam in the Soviet Union
  • Islam, Gorbachev, and the breakup of the USSR
  • Post-Soviet Islam: general observations
  • State Islam and the Eurasian consensus
  • Islamists ascendant? the case of Tajikistan
  • Islamist ascendant? the case of Chechnya
  • The Islamist threat in Eurasia: a realistic assessment
  • 7: Some thoughts on Islamist failures in Sudan and Afghanistan
  • Sudan: trajectory of failure
  • Afghanistan: an Islamist Cambodia?