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Islamism in the shadow of al-Qaeda / François Burgat ; translated by Patrick Hutchinson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: Cairo : The American University in Cairo Press, 2009Description: xiv, 182 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9789774162749
Uniform titles:
  • Islamisme à l'heure d'Al-Qaida. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 320.557 22 BUR
Online resources:
Contents:
Translator's note and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The identity matrix of "Muslim-speak" -- From national struggle to the disillusionments of "recolonization" : the triple temporality of Islamism -- The Islamist field between national specificity and transnationalization -- Red Sea secrets or Islamism without colonization -- The brothers and the salafis : between modernization and literalism, with or without radicalization -- Islamic radicalization : between religious sectarianism and political counterviolence -- From Sayyid Qutb to Mohammed Atta : sectarianism or political counterviolence? -- From fears inherited to fears exploited : the war of representations -- Hard power and imposed reform : the illusions of the western response to Islamism -- Conclusion : against terrorism -- The absolute weapon? -- Appendix : the Islamists as seen by the West in 1992.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translator's note and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The identity matrix of "Muslim-speak" -- From national struggle to the disillusionments of "recolonization" : the triple temporality of Islamism -- The Islamist field between national specificity and transnationalization -- Red Sea secrets or Islamism without colonization -- The brothers and the salafis : between modernization and literalism, with or without radicalization -- Islamic radicalization : between religious sectarianism and political counterviolence -- From Sayyid Qutb to Mohammed Atta : sectarianism or political counterviolence? -- From fears inherited to fears exploited : the war of representations -- Hard power and imposed reform : the illusions of the western response to Islamism -- Conclusion : against terrorism -- The absolute weapon? -- Appendix : the Islamists as seen by the West in 1992.

Text in English ; translated from the original French language.

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