The late 20th century saw the emergence of an unexpected and extraordinary phenomenon, culminating in a devastating onslaught on the West in 2001: Islamist political movements. Beginning in the early 1970s, militants revolted against the regimes in power across the Muslim world and exacerbated political conflicts internationally. Their jihad - or 'Holy Struggle' - aimed to establish a global Islamic state based solely on a strict interpretation of the Qur'an. Jihad is the first comprehensive attempt to follow the history ...
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The late 20th century saw the emergence of an unexpected and extraordinary phenomenon, culminating in a devastating onslaught on the West in 2001: Islamist political movements. Beginning in the early 1970s, militants revolted against the regimes in power across the Muslim world and exacerbated political conflicts internationally. Their jihad - or 'Holy Struggle' - aimed to establish a global Islamic state based solely on a strict interpretation of the Qur'an. Jihad is the first comprehensive attempt to follow the history and spread of this new political-religious phenomenon. Kepel has travelled throughout the Muslim world gathering documents, interviews and archival material inaccessible to most scholars.
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As New in As New jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 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.
