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Initiative to Stop the Violence : Sadat's Assassins and the Renunciation of Political Violence / al-Gama'ah al-Islamiyah.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- al-Islamiyah, al-Gama'ah, Author.
- Jamāʻah al-Islāmīyah (Egypt), author.
- Series:
- World thought in translation.
- World Thought in Translation
- Standardized Title:
- Mubādarat waqf al-'unf. English
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jamāʻah al-Islāmīyah (Egypt).
- Peace--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Peace.
- Jihad.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Formerly one of the largest and most militant Islamic organizations in the Middle East, Egypt's al-Gama'ah al-Islamiyah is believed to have played an instrumental role in numerous acts of global terrorism, including the assassination of President Anwar Sadat and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. In later years, however, the organization issued a surprising renunciation of violence, repudiating its former ideology and replacing it with a shari'a-based understanding and assessment of the purpose and proper application of jihad. This key manifesto of modern Islamist thought is now available to an English-speaking audience in an eminently readable translation by noted Islamic scholar Sherman A. Jackson. Unlike other Western and Muslim critiques of violent extremism, this important work emerges from within the movement of Middle Eastern Islamic activism, both challenging and enriching prevailing notions about the role of Islamists in fighting the scourge of extremist politics, blind anti-Westernism and, alas, wayward jihad.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One: The Commonweal and Communal Harm
- Chapter Two: A Reality-Based Assessment
- Chapter Three: Correcting Misunderstandings
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780300211061
- 0300211066
- OCLC:
- 987645199
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