The Road to Al-Qaeda - The Story of Bin Laden's Right-Hand Man

Informationen zum Autor Montasser al-Zayyat joined the Islamic movement in Egypt in 1974. He was arrested in the Jihad Case following the assassination of former President Anwar al-Sadat in 1982. After the trial, his activities as an Islamist shifted to defending Islamists in Egyptian courts. He adopted and promoted the peaceful approach to effecting change in Egypt, through reconciliation between Islamists and the Egyptian authorities. Sara Nimis is the Mellon Globalization Forum Fellow. Her research and teaching deal with a broad range of contemporary topics, including Sufism (Islamic Mysticism), gender, sexuality and the body in Islam, Islamic environmental activism, the social and political history of Egypt, modernization and secularization in Egypt, Arabic language and literature and postcolonial literature. Ahmed Fekry (the original translator) is a journalist on the Middle East Times and a graduate student at the American University in Cairo (AUC). Klappentext Controversial biography of Al-Qaeda mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri that details divisions within militant Islam. Zusammenfassung Controversial biography of Al-Qaeda mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri that details divisions within militant Islam.

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• Authors: Montasser Al-Zayyat, Montasser/ Abu-Radi Al-Zayyat, Al-Zayyat Montasser, Al-Zayyat Montasser, Muntasir Zayyat
• Assisted by: Sara Nimis (Editor), Nimis Sara (Editor), Ahmed Fekry (Translation), Fekry Ahmed (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2004
• EAN: 9780745321769
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-2176-9
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 191 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Critical Studies on Islam; Critical Studies on Islam
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists, Biography: historical, political & military, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, Islamic Studies, Terrorism, armed struggle, Biography: historical, political and military, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities