01494nam a2200277 a 4500 ASIN1860646840 20170105102925.0 131211s2003 xxu eng d 1860646840 (paperback) 9781860646843 (paperback) 0 BP173.7 320.550917671 KEP 2003 Kepel, Gilles. Jihad : the trail of political islam / Gilles Kepel. [S.l.] : I.B.Tauris, 2003. 364 p. The late 20th century saw the emergence of an unexpected and extraordinary phenomenon culminating in a devastating onslaught on the West in 2001: Islamist political movements. Beginning in the early 1970s, militants revolted against the regimes in power across the Muslim world and exacerbated political conflicts internationally. Their jihad - or "Holy Struggle" - aimed to establish a global Islamic state based solely on a strict interpretation of the Qur'an. "Jihad" is a comprehensive attempt to follow the history and spread of this new political-religious phenomenon. Gilles Kepel has travelled throughout the Muslim world gathering documents, interviews and archival material inaccessible to most scholars. Islam Islam and politics Islam and state Islamic fundamentalism Jihad Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1860646840/chopaconline-20 ddc BK 15762 15762 0 0 0 0 NFIC CIPS CIPS GEN 2013-10-02 0 320.550917671 KEP 2003 CIPS0002363 2013-12-11 2013-12-11 BK