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Sausalito Public Library GILLES KEPEL $29.95 As we confront the threat of terrorism to our lives and liberties, Professor Gilles Kepel helps us make sense of the ominous reality of jihad today. Beginning in the early 1970s, Islamist militants revolted against the regimes in power through¬ out the Muslim world and exacerbated political conflicts everywhere. Their jihad, or “holy war,” aimed to establish a global Islamic state based solely on a strict interpretation of the Koran. Religious ideology proved a cohesive force, gath¬ ering followers from students and the young urban poor to middle-class professionals. After an initial triumph with the Islamic Revo¬ lution in Iran, the movement waged jihad against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, pro¬ claiming a doctrine of extreme violence for the first time. By the end of the 1990s, the failure to seize political power elsewhere led to a split in the movement: moderates developed new concepts of “Muslim democracy’ while extrem¬ ists 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, Kepel has traveled through¬ out the Muslim world, gathering documents, interviews, and archival materials inaccessible to most scholars, in order to give us a com¬ prehensive understanding of the scope of Islamist political movements, their past and their present. Sausalito Public Library SAUSALITO PUBLIC LIBRARY I II 420 Litho St. Sausalito, CA 94965 3 11 02228 9498 (415) 289-4121 DATE DUE JUN 2 2 ?nn? JUL 0 8 2002 AUG 2 7 2002 SFP 1 9 2002 OCT 8 200? NOV 9 2002 iflM a ?nn.3 JAN 2 8 2003 DEC 0 4 2006 Or C Z.1 OV» b 2008 AUBO • DEMCO, INC. 38-2931 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/jihad00gill_0 JIHAD GILLES KEPEL JIHAD THE TRAIL OF POLITICAL ISLAM Translated by Anthony F. Roberts THE BELKNAP PRESS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, Massachusetts 2002 Sausalito Public Library Copyright © 2002 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Originally published as Jihad: Expansion et Declin de Vlslamisme ©Editions Gallimard, 2000 Cataloging-in-Publication Data available from the Library of Congress 0-674-00877-4 In memory of Michel cTHermies master friend
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