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Jihad: Expansion et déclin de l'islamisme

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Traduit dans seize pays, cet ouvrage fait aujourd'hui référence à travers le monde. Première étude d'ensemble du mouvement islamiste des années 1970 jusqu'à nos jours, cette mise en perspective politique et sociale permet de comprendre comment, après une montée en puissance qui culmina dans la révolution iranienne et le jihad d'Afghanistan, l'islamisme se fragmente en tendances antagoniques : certaines déboucheront sur des compromis démocratiques tandis que d'autres basculeront dans la violence et la fuite en avant à travers un terrorisme international sans attaches sociales. Cette édition, refondue et mise à jour, conduit le lecteur jusqu'aux lendemains des attentats du 11 septembre 2001, à la seconde Intifada palestinienne, comme aux succès électoraux des "islamistes modérés" turcs et aux débats parmi les musulmans en Europe occidentale.

751 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published March 6, 2003

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About the author

Gilles Kepel

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A French scholar and analyst of the Islamic and the Arab world. He has written works on Radical Islam including Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam. He was the Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs for 2009-10 at LSE IDEAS (Centre for Diplomacy & Strategy, at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Professor Kepel has previously been a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York. He speaks Arabic, French, English and Italian.

Kepel's work has stirred intense debates in the French academia. His analyses of political Islam have notably been criticized by Olivier Roy, François Burgat and Alain Roussillon. These 3 authors however are also quite controversial, with secularists like Caroline Fourest or Mohamed Sifaoui being particularly critical of Roy and Burgat's sympathy towards islamists.

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