Jihad : the trail of political Islam /
"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 ji...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translation of: Jihad : expansion et declin de l'Islamisme. |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2002.
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- Decline. 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.