Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam

Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam

Cover of English translation
Author Gilles Kepel
Original title Jihad: Expansion et Déclin de l'Islamisme
Translator Anthony F. Roberts
Language French
Subject Islam and politics
Jihad
Islam—20th century
Publisher Éditions Gallimard France
Belknap Press United States
Publication date
2000
Published in English
2002
ISBN 0-674-00877-4 (English, Belknap Press)

Jihad The Trail of Political Islam (French: Jihad: Expansion et Déclin de l"Islamisme[1]) is a book by French author and scholar Gilles Kepel. It was originally published in French in 2000 by Gallimard, with English translations by Anthony F. Roberts from Belknap Press in 2002[1] and I.B. Tauris in 2006.

The book provides a detailed examination of the expansion and decline of what he terms the doomed extremist ideology of the Jihadist movement since the 1960s. The author explains the attraction of Islamism to humiliated and faltering segments of the Muslim population and outlines its severe shortcomings.

Notes

  1. 1 2 Kepel (2002), front matter

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