Jihad : the trail of political Islam
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Jihad : the trail of political Islam
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002
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Jihad : expansion et déclin de l'islamisme
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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Originally published: [Paris] : Gallimard, 2000
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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. Jihad is the first extensive, in-depth attempt to follow the history and geography of this disturbing political-religious phenomenon.
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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.
After an initial triumph with the Islamic revolution in Iran, the movement waged jihad against the USSR in Afghanistan, proclaiming for the first time a doctrine of extreme violence. By the end of the 1990s, the failure to seize political power elsewhere led to a split: movement moderates developed new concepts of "Muslim democracy" while extremists resorted to large-scale terrorist attacks around the world.
Jihad is the first extensive, in-depth attempt to follow the history and geography of this disturbing political-religious phenomenon. Fluent in Arabic, Gilles Kepel has traveled throughout the Muslim world gathering documents, interviews, and archival materials inaccessible to most scholars, in order to give us a comprehensive understanding of the scope of Islamist movements, their past, and their present. As we confront the threat of terrorism to our lives and liberties, Kepel helps us make sense of the ominous reality of jihad today.
Table of Contents
* Introduction * Part I: 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 * Part II: 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 * Conclusion * Notes * Glossary * Maps * Abbreviations * Index
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