by Gilles Kepel · Belknap Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780674010901
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«Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam» is Gilles Kepel's essay on Islamism, published by Belknap Press in paperback (464 pages, in English).
It analyses the rise of Islamist movements since the 1970s, when militants challenged the regimes of the Muslim world. Kepel places their peak in the Iranian revolution of 1979 and explains that, after the jihad in Afghanistan, the movement split between moderates seeking a «Muslim democracy» and extremists who chose terrorism.
Originally written in French and published in this English edition in 2003. Belknap Press is an imprint of Harvard University Press. It includes seven maps and draws on travels, interviews and archives.
Aimed at a university audience and at readers of history, politics and religion.
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.
