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Gilles Kepel's Jihadis an intense, detailed examination of the militant Islamist movement over the last quarter-century. Kepel divides his book into two parts--"Expansion" and "Decline"--and posits that the September 11, 2001, attacks, rather than demonstrating "strength and irrepressible might," highlighted the "isolation" and "fragmentation" of a "faltering" and probably doomed extremist ideology. Kepel follows Islamism from its theoretical underpinnings in the late 1960s and its rapid expansion into Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans, and Central, South, and Southeast Asia, through the Taliban's ascendancy in Afghanistan and beyond. He explains Islamism's attractions, and outlines its severe shortcomings. With consummate skill, he illuminates the bewilderingly intricate effects global events (oil prices, the fall of Communism) have had on internal politics of individual countries, and vice versa. Kepel, wisely, refuses to prognosticate. Instead, his achievement is in providing--for the determined reader--a deeply authoritative context for the seemingly inexplicable events of the recent past. --H. O'Billovich
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Gilles Kepel is Professor and Chair of Middle East Studies at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris.
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- PublisherBelknap Press of Harvard Univ.
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1860646859
- ISBN 13 9781860646850
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages364
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Hard Cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 454pp. The first comprehensive attempt to follow the history and spread of this new political-religious phenomenon, which aims to provide a full understanding of the scope of the Islamists movements, their past, present and future directions. Clean. Seller Inventory # 009557
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