– Etter det overraskende angrepet USA opplevde tidlig på høsten i 2001, har det vært skrevet en mengde bøker om hendelsen, og hva den skyldtes. Et godt bidrag til denne debatten, er Gilles Kepels bok "Jihad. The trail of political Islam". Dette er en saklig og grundig gjennomgang av det historiske perspektivet ved ¿hellig krig¿, som omfatter utviklingen av islamistbevegelsen i den siste delen av det tyvende århundret. Han skriver mye om hva han mener var målene - og det som foreløpig har blitt konsekvensene - av angrepet 11. september. På lang sikt er Talibans mål ifølge Kepel å få islamistiske ledere i muslimske land verden over. Det er nyttig å tilegne seg kunnskap om fenomenet jihad i alle tilfeller, enten du studerer islam eller ei, noe denne boken egner seg godt til.
Jihad
«I read this in Pakistan, over a period of weeks shortly after the 9/11 attacks. Its sweep across the broad landscape of radical Sunni activism was a revelation. The book is one of the few genuinely rigorous academic overviews of the social and historical roots of the phenomenon of modern Muslim extremism ranging geographically from the far east to Europe, and chronologically from the 1960s onwards that also remains readable. Its primary thesis that violent Islamic militancy is in large part a response to the failure of political Islamist activism has stood the test of time. Kepel is famous in France but almost unknown outside. This is a shame. A classic.»
Jason Burke, The Guardian
A landmark study of the rise of Islamic extremism, Jihad follows the history and spread of this new political-religious phenomenon from its beginnings as a militant rebellion in the Middle East during the 1970s to its culmination in a devastating onslaught on the West in 2001. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 448
- ISBN
- 9781350148598
- Utgave
- 5. utg.
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
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«I read this in Pakistan, over a period of weeks shortly after the 9/11 attacks. Its sweep across the broad landscape of radical Sunni activism was a revelation. The book is one of the few genuinely rigorous academic overviews of the social and historical roots of the phenomenon of modern Muslim extremism ranging geographically from the far east to Europe, and chronologically from the 1960s onwards that also remains readable. Its primary thesis that violent Islamic militancy is in large part a response to the failure of political Islamist activism has stood the test of time. Kepel is famous in France but almost unknown outside. This is a shame. A classic.»
Jason Burke, The Guardian
«Deeply researched, deeply measured and deeply instructive – the best survey available and likely to remain so»
Justin Wintle, Sunday Times
«Kepel's work... spans the world of political Islam, from the assassination of Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, to the establishment of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network in Afghanistan. He has the knack of explaining how events in one part of the Islamic world have affected developments elsewhere»
Anton La Guardia, The Daily Telegraph
«No-one else has attempted so bold an overview of the Islamist phenomenon. Of all the books on this subject, this is the most challenging and the most illuminating»
The Economist
«Simply excellent»
Malise Ruthven, Prospect