Jihad
Subtitle: the trail of political Islam
By: Gilles Kepel ; translated by Anthony F. Roberts.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
Subjects: Jihad.; Islam and state.; Islam and politics.
Work titles: Jihad.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the French.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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 treaty of terrorism in Egypt ; Osama bin Laden and the war against the west ; Hamas, Israel, Arafat, and Jordan ; The forced secularization of Turkish Islamists.