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Gilles Kepel
AuthorBooks · Second handSince 1955
Gilles Kepel is a French political scientist and Arabist, specialized in the contemporary Middle East and Muslims in the West. He was a professor at Sciences Po Paris, and Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) university, where he was the director of the Middle East and Mediterranean Program. His book Away from Chaos: The Middle East and the Challenge to the West was reviewed by The New York Times as "an excellent primer for anyone wanting to get up to speed on the region." His essay Le Prophète et la Pandémie / du Moyen-Orient au jihadisme d'atmosphère topped the best-seller lists, and was translated into English as well as several other languages.
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Gilles Kepel is a French political scientist and Arabist, specialized in the contemporary Middle East and Muslims in the West. He was a professor at Sciences Po Paris, and Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) university, where he was the director of the Middle East and Mediterranean Program. His book Away from Chaos: The Middle East and the Challenge to the West was reviewed by The New York Times as "an excellent primer for anyone wanting to get up to speed on the region." His essay Le Prophète et la Pandémie / du Moyen-Orient au jihadisme d'atmosphère topped the best-seller lists, and was translated into English as well as several other languages.
Gilles Kepel is a renowned French academic born in Paris in 1955.
His distinguished career as a political scientist and Islamologist has led him to publish over forty works.
He is a global authority on the study of Islam and its complex relationship with contemporary politics.
His book Jihad: the trail of political Islam is considered a fundamental work for understanding political Islam.
As a researcher and university professor, he has dedicated his career to analyzing history and social movements in the Islamic world.
