| Description |
viii, 454 p. : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Expansion. A cultural revolution -- Islam in the late 1960s -- Building petro-Islam in the ruins of Arab nationalism -- Islamism in Egypt, Malaysia, and Pakistan -- Khomeini's revolution and its legacy -- Jihad in Afghanistan and Intifada in Palestine -- Islamization in Algeria and the Sudan -- The fatwa and the veil in Europe -- Decline. From the Gulf War to the Taliban Jihad -- The failure of graft Jihad on Bosnia's Civil War -- The logic of massacre in the second Algerian war -- The treaty of terrorism in Egypt -- Osama bin Laden and the war against the west -- Hamas, Israel, Arafat, and Jordan -- The forced secularization of Turkish Islamists. |
| Subject |
Islam and politics.
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Jihad.
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Islam -- 20th century.
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| ISBN |
0674008774 |
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