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30. Apr. 2006 · Reading Gilles Kepel's new book, The War for Muslim Minds, challenges one's sense of scale. Crucial, irreversible steps such as George W. Bush's early decision not to pursue the Palestinian-Israeli peace process and the neoconservatives' justification for the Iraq war, take on new meaning when seen in context of the enormous ...
The War for Muslim Minds is the English translation of Fitna: guerre au coeur de l'Islam, a 2004 book by French author and Islamic studies scholar Gilles Kepel. It was translated from the original French by Pascale Ghazaleh. The book explores Islam's relationship to the West, especially in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
- Gilles Kepel
- 2004
30. Apr. 2006 · A masterpiece of political explication. Kepel is especially good on the symmetries between the Islamic fundamentalists and their Western equivalents, the neoconservatives. -- Daniel Lazare The Nation. Reading Gilles Kepel's new book, The War for Muslim Minds, challenges one's sense of scale.
The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West on JSTOR. GILLES KEPEL. TRANSLATED BY PASCALE GHAZALEH. Copyright Date: 2004. Published by: Harvard University Press, Belknap Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv21hrk4n. Select all. (For EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley) (For BibTex) Front Matter. (pp. [i]- [iv]) Front Matter. (pp. [i]- [iv])
The crucial issue now is whether Iraq is the new land of jihad or of fitna a war in the heart of Islam that threatens the faithful with community fragmentation, disintegration and ruin (my book...
The objective of the 9/11 strike at the ‘faraway enemy’ was to mobilise the Muslim masses behind the Islamists’ banner, impel-ling them to overthrow their own corrupt Muslim leaders or the ‘near-by enemy’ and establish an Islamic state.
This fresh approach focuses on the Middle East as a nexus of international disorder and decodes the language of war, propaganda, and terrorism that holds the region in its thrall. September 11, 2001, forever changed the world as we knew it.
