num_pages: 240
description: A study of Islamic fundamentalism— more properly called "Islamicism" in the country of its birth, Egypt. Gilles Kepel unwinds the skein of Islamicism from its renaissance in the 1950s to the eruption of various competing currents and factions in the 1970s and 1980s.
language: English
title: The prophet and pharaoh: Muslim extremism in Egypt
titlecomplete: The prophet and pharaoh: Muslim extremism in Egypt
genres: Terrorism, History, Islam, Religion, Egypt, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 101
publisher: Saqi Books