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The receding shadow of the prophet : the rise and fall of radical political Islam / Ray Takeyh and Nikolas K. Gvosdev.
LIBRA BP173.7 .T34 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Takeyh, Ray, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islam and politics--Islamic countries.
- Islam and politics.
- Islamic fundamentalism.
- Religion and politics.
- Islamic countries.
- Religion and politics--Islamic countries.
- Islamic fundamentalism--Islamic countries.
- Islam--21st century.
- Islam.
- Islamic countries--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 186 pages ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Rise and fall of radical political Islam
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Islamist Challenge 1
- Islamism versus Muslim Politics 2
- The Islamist Outlook 8
- Attractions and Pitfalls of Islamism 14
- Chapter 2 Iran: The Islamist State and the Reformist Agenda 23
- Revolution and Reform 24
- Reform's Real Track Record 29
- A Civil War in the Right 32
- The New Iran? 36
- Chapter 3 Islamism in Algeria: A History of Hope and Agony 39
- The Growing Political and Social Gaps 39
- The Evolution of Political Islam in Algeria 42
- The Rise and Fall of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) 44
- Whither Algeria? 51
- Chapter 4 Egypt: The Struggle for a Nation's Soul 59
- Nasser and the Muslim Brotherhood 60
- Killing Pharaoh 61
- The Egyptian Stalemate 68
- Islamism and Moderation in Egypt 71
- Chapter 5 Islamism in the Former Yugoslavia 77
- Islam and Nationality in Yugoslavia: A General Overview 78
- Muslims, Islam, and the War in Bosnia, 1990-2002 84
- Albanians, Islam, and Kosovo, 1974-1999 94
- Did the Balkans Become an Islamist Beachhead? Concluding Thoughts 96
- Chapter 6 From the Red Star to the Green Crescent? Islamism in the Former Soviet Union 105
- The Shadow of the Crescent? Assumptions about Islam in the Soviet Union 106
- Islam, Gorbachev, and the Breakup of the USSR 114
- Post-Soviet Islam: General Observations 119
- State Islam and the Eurasian Consensus 122
- Islamists Ascendant? The Case of Tajikistan 126
- Islamists Ascendant? The Case of Chechnya 131
- The Islamist Threat in Eurasia: A Realistic Assessment 135
- Chapter 7 Some Thoughts on Islamist Failures in Sudan and Afghanistan 147
- Sudan: Trajectory of Failure 148
- Afghanistan: An Islamist Cambodia? 152.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-182) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0275976289
- 0275976297
- OCLC:
- 52901052
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