When a terrorist made a death threat against gilles kepel, frances most famous scholar of islam, it deepened his embroilment in a national debate. On bastille day in 2016, an isis sympathizer drove a truck into crowds of vacationers at the beaches of nice, and. Gilles kepel has 44 books on goodreads with 3361 ratings. Gilles kepel born 30 june 1955 is a french political scientist and specialist of the islam and contemporary arab world.
Fluent in arabic, gilles kepel has traveled throughout the muslim world gathering documents, interviews, and archival materials inaccessible to most scholars, in order to give us a comprehensive understanding of the scope of islamist movements, their past, and their present. In his 2010 lecture at the london school of economics he explains how from the midpoint of the 1970s political islam became a prominent actor in the world system, and the consequences of this. The arab revolutions, political islam, and democratic. See all books authored by gilles kepel, including jihad, and the revenge of god.
Kepel urges us to escape the ideological quagmire of terrorism and martyrdom and explore the terms of a new and constructive dialogue between islam and the west, one for which europe, with its expanding and restless muslim populations, may be the proving ground. Download premium images you cant get anywhere else. Gilles kepels jihadmakes an ideal companion to morning newspapers filled with frustratingly contextfree briefs from the war on terrorism this is a decidedly grounded book. The tape is extremely important, because al qaeda believed that 911 would be a means to mobilize the muslim masses against the west and to topple the middle eastern regimes. Gilles kepel, born june 30, 1955 is a french political scientist and arabist, specialized in the contemporary middle east and muslims in the west. Gilles kepels landmark book provides an indepth history and compelling perhaps the most definitive is gilles kepels jihad.
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