Jihad (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Gilles Kepel
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Current affairs, history, and religion
- Setting: The Muslim world
- Genres: Nonfiction, Politics, Current affairs, History, Religion and spirituality
- Subjects: 1960’s, 1970’s, United States or Americans, Politics, Europe or Europeans, Islam, Revolutions, Religion, Ethnic groups, Violence, Muslims, Terrorism or terrorists, Middle East, Russia or Russian people, Arabs, Iran or Iranian people
- Locales: Earth
In his Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam, Gilles Kepel traces the Islamist movement back to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Iran, Sayyid Qutb in Egypt, and Mawlana Mawdudi in Egypt, the theorists who in the 1960’s provided the rationale for the political movement that he terms Islamism. According to Kepel, their writings dominated Islamist thinking after the Israeli-Arab War of 1973. In 1979, the first successful phase of the movement came with the defeat of the shah of Iran, and since that time the Iran of Khomeini and his successors has contended with the monarchy in Saudi...
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