Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-429) and index.
Part 1: A cultural revolution -- Islam in the late 1960s -- Building Petro-Islam on the Ruins of Arab Nationalism -- Islamism in Egypt, Malaysia and Pakistan -- Khomeini's revolution and its legacy -- Jihad in Afghanistan and Intifada in Palestine -- Isalmization in Algeria and the Sudan -- The Fatwa and the veil in Europe -- Part II: Decline -- From the Gulf War to the Taliban Jihad -- The failure to Graft Jihad on Bosnia's Civil War -- The logic of Massacre in the second Algerian war -- The threat of terrorism in Egypt -- Osama bin Laden and the war against the West -- Hamas, Israel, Arafat and Jordan -- The forced secularization of Turkish Islamists.
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World order has been rocked by an explosive, unexpected and extraordinary phenomenon: political Islam. This book reflects an attempt to follow the history and spread of this political-religious phenomenon. It offers an assessment of its past, its present, and where it might lead in the future.