Author: Kepel, Gilles
Publication year: 2002.
Language: English
Call Number BP173.7 .K453 2002
Media class: Book
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674008774
Extent: viii, 454 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Description: Expansion. A cultural revolution ; Islam in the late 1960s ; Building petro-Islam in 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.