Beyond Terror and Martyrdom - The Future of the Middle East

Informationen zum Autor Gilles Kepel is Professor and Chair of Middle East Studies at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris. Klappentext Kepel 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. This book sounds the alarm to the West and to Islam that both of these exhausted narratives are bankrupt¿neither productive of democratic change in the Middle East nor of unity in Islam. Zusammenfassung Kepel 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. This book sounds the alarm to the West and to Islam that both of these exhausted narratives are bankrupt—neither productive of democratic change in the Middle East nor of unity in Islam.

Product details

• Authors: Gilles Kepel, Kepel Gilles
• Assisted by: Pascale Ghazaleh (Translation), Ghazaleh Pascale (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2010
• EAN: 9780674057319
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05731-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Geography, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, military history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, Middle East, Terrorism, armed struggle, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities