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Jihad

The Trail of Political Islam

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$30.00 • £26.95 • €27.95

ISBN 9780674010901

Publication Date: 03/31/2003

Short

464 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

7 maps

Belknap Press

North America only

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  • Introduction
  • I. Expansion
    • 1. A Cultural Revolution
    • 2. Islam in the Late 1960s
    • 3. Building Petro-Islam on the Ruins of Arab Nationalism
    • 4. Islamism in Egypt, Malaysia, and Pakistan
    • 5. Khomeini’s Revolution and Its Legacy
    • 6. Jihad in Afghanistan and Intifada in Palestine
    • 7. Islamization in Algeria and the Sudan
    • 8. The Fatwa and the Veil in Europe
  • II. Decline
    • 9. From the Gulf War to the Taliban Jihad
    • 10. The Failure to Graft Jihad on Bosnia’s Civil War
    • 11. The Logic of Massacre in the Second Algerian War
    • 12. The Threat of Terrorism in Egypt
    • 13. Osama bin Laden and the War against the West
    • 14. Hamas, Israel, Arafat, and Jordan
    • 15. The Forced Secularization of Turkish Islamists
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Maps
  • Abbreviations
  • Index

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