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 jihad, o...
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Cambridge, MA
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
2002
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| Call Number : | BP 173.7 .K47 2002 |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1: 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 2: DDecline
- 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