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Jihad : the trail of political Islam / Gilles Kepel ; translated by Anthony F. Roberts.
Van Pelt Library BP173.7 .K453 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kepel, Gilles.
- Standardized Title:
- Jihad : expansion et déclin de l'islamisme. English.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Islam and politics.
- Jihad.
- Islam--20th century.
- Islam.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 454 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- Fluent in Arabic, Kepel has traveled throughout the Muslim world gathering documents, interviews, and archival materials inaccessible to most scholars, in order to give a comprehensive understanding of the scope of Islamist movements, their past, and their present. Kepel helps readers make sense of the ominous reality of jihad today.
- Notes:
- Originally published by Gallimard in 2000 as: Jihad : expansion et déclin de l'islamisme.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [379]-429) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674008774
- OCLC:
- 48851110
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