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Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle East

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Description for Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle East Paperback. Urges us to escape the ideological quagmire of terrorism and martyrdom and explore the terms of a new and constructive dialogue between Islam and the West, one for which Europe, with its expanding and restless Muslim populations, may be the proving ground. Translator(s): Ghazaleh, Pascale. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; GTJ; HBW; JFSR2; JPWL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 132 x 203 x 22. Weight in Grams: 382.

Since 2001, two dominant worldviews have clashed in the global arena: a neoconservative nightmare of an insidious Islamic terrorist threat to civilized life, and a jihadist myth of martyrdom through the slaughter of infidels. Across the airwaves and on the ground, an ill-defined and uncontrollable war has raged between these two opposing scenarios. Deadly images and threats—from the televised beheading of Western hostages to graphic pictures of torture at Abu Ghraib, from the destruction wrought by suicide bombers in London and Madrid to civilian deaths at the hands of American occupation forces in Iraq—have polarized populations on both sides of ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674057319
SKU
V9780674057319
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About Gilles Kepel
Gilles Kepel is Professor and Chair of Middle East Studies at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris.

Reviews for Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle East
This book, from one of France's shrewdest interpreters of the Muslim world, provides a highly readable end-of-term conspectus of the subsequent violent encounter between America and the jihadists. It also offers an intriguing argument. In Gilles Kepel's telling, it is not only Mr. Bush whose strategy failed after September 11th. Osama bin Laden's strategy failed too....Instead of throttling jihadism, the ... Read more

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