Muslim Extremism in Egypt

by Kepel, Gilles

• ISBN13: 9780520239340
• ISBN10: 0520239342
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

Gilles Kepel takes us into the world of the students, professionals, workers, and unemployed who are caught up in the Islamic movements of Egypt. Events that have riveted world attention--the first World Trade Center bombing, assassinations in Beirut, the attempt on the life of the Pope, the assassination of Sadat, and, in a new preface, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001--are illuminated by this penetrating study.

Author Biography

Gilles Kepel is chair of Middle Eastern Studies at the Institute for Political Studies (Institut d'Etudes Politiques) in Paris. He is the editor of four volumes of essays and the author of six books

Table of Contents

Preface to the 2003 Edition	ix
Preface The Roots of Islamist Movements	9	(12)
Introduction Journey to the Ends of Islam	21	(5)
From One Ordeal to Another: 1954--66	26	(10)
In the Beginning Were the Camps	27	(4)
The 1965 `Plot'	31	(5)
'Signposts'	36	(34)
Sayyid Qutb, Author and Martyr	38	(5)
Islamicism or Barbarism	43	(9)
What Is to Be Done?	52	(7)
The Ulema Intervene	59	(9)
Appendix: Works of Sayyid Qutb	68	(2)
The Society of Muslims	70	(33)
And God Came to Shukri	71	(7)
The New Hegira	78	(8)
Living Together in the Prophet's Way	86	(5)
Death of One of the Ulema	91	(12)
'Al-Da'wa': Legalists Despite Themselves	103	(26)
The Purse-Strings	107	(3)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse	110	(14)
Making Good Use of Parliament	124	(5)
The Vanguard of the `Umma'	129	(43)
The Student Revolt	130	(5)
The `University of Large Numbers'	135	(3)
In the Shadow of the Regime	138	(3)
Changer la Vie	141	(6)
How to Be a Good Muslim	147	(9)
For the Good of the Copts	156	(8)
June 1981: Checkmate	164	(8)
The Sermons of Sheikh Kishk	172	(19)
A Sheikh's Childhood	174	(3)
The Friday Sermon	177	(14)
To Assassinate Pharaoh	191	(32)
The Modern Tartars	194	(3)
Holy War Against the Infidels	197	(2)
Carrying Out God's Orders	199	(5)
Killing Christians	204	(6)
To Assassinate Pharaoh	210	(13)
Conclusion	223	(18)
The Religious and the Political	226	(5)
Is the Islamicist Movement Inevitable?	231	(5)
Facets of a Utopia	236	(5)
Afterword: Ebb and Flow, 1981--1985	241	(18)
The Carrot and the Stick	243	(3)
Depoliticizing Islam	246	(3)
Electoral Strategies	249	(2)
Modes of Preaching	251	(8)
Sources	259	(6)
Chronology: 1928--1992	265	(10)
Index	275