The events of September 11, 2001, forever changed the world as we knew it. In their wake, the quest for international order has prompted a reshuffling of global aims and priorities. In a fresh approach, Gilles Kepel focuses on the Middle East as a nexus of international disorder and decodes the complex language of war, propaganda, and terrorism ...
This history of the rise of fundamentalist Islam in the late 20th century focuses on its politics and ideology. The author, a French academic, evaluates the Islamist movement's success in attracting and keeping followers, and its somewhat less successful record in acquiring and keeping political power--resulting in a split into moderate and ...
Since 2001, two dominant worldviews have clashed in the global arena: a neoconservative nightmare of an insidious Islamic terrorist threat to civilized life, and a jihadist myth of martyrdom through the slaughter of infidels. Across the airwaves and on the ground, an ill-defined and uncontrollable war has raged between these two opposing scenarios ...
Despite the frequent appearances of Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri on television screens worldwide, Al Qaeda remains an elusive entity. As the world has grown increasingly familiar with the spectacle of Islamist terrorism, Al Qaeda's essential worldview has remained bewilderingly opaque. To reveal its inner workings, Gilles Kepel and his ...
"The ultimate manifestation of jihad began with the attack against New York. From Egypt to the Emirates, I made observations and extracted confessions". One of the world's foremost experts on Islam and Islamism, Kepel returned to the Middle East even as New York was still struggling with shock and dust. This book is a dispatch from history's most ...
The Revenge Of God is a translation of the best-selling book, LaRevanche de Dieu, Gilles Keel, one of Europe's leading authorities on Islamic societies, offers a compelling account of the resurgence of religious belief in the modern world.
The Revenge of God is a compelling account of the resurgence of religious belief in the modern world, and of the conflict and strife to which it has given rise. Gilles Kepel examines this development by comparing three major world religions - Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. He shows that there are striking similarities between all three ...
Gilles Kepel is one of Europe's leading authorities on contemporary Islam. This new book is an outstanding account of the ways in which Islam is asserting its identity in the West today. Kepel discusses the most spectacular and controversial manifestations of this phenomenon: the Rushdie affair, the 'veil' incident in France (when the French ...
Despite the frequent appearances of Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri on television screens worldwide, Al Qaeda remains an elusive entity. As the world has grown increasingly familiar with the spectacle of Islamist terrorism, Al Qaeda's essential worldview has remained bewilderingly opaque. To reveal its inner workings, Gilles Kepel and his ...
Hasta hace muy poco, y para la sociedad occidental, el Islam solo representaba algo muy lejano, lo Otro. Pero las cosas empezaron a cambiar, y en todas partes, desde America hasta Europa, una creciente inmigracion provoco la instalacion, el asentamiento e incluso la reproduccion de vastas poblaciones musulmanas. Iniciado, sin embargo, en pleno ...
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A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
