by Gilles Kepel · Editions Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070753055
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«Jihad. Expansion et déclin de l'islamisme» is the historical essay by Gilles Kepel, published by Editions Gallimard in paperback (464 pages, in French).
Gilles Kepel analyzes the expansion and decline of Islamist movements between the Iranian revolution of 1979 and the end of the twentieth century, with the rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia, the jihad in Afghanistan and the violence in Egypt and Algeria, until their exhaustion in the 1990s.
Published in 2000. Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-426) and indexes.
For readers interested in contemporary history, political Islam and international relations.
Gilles Kepel is a French political scientist and Arabist, specialized in the contemporary Middle East and Muslims in the West. He was a professor at Sciences Po Paris, and Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) university, where he was the director of the Middle East and Mediterranean Program. His book Away from Chaos: The Middle East and the Challenge to the West was reviewed by The New York Times as "an excellent primer for anyone wanting to get up to speed on the region." His essay Le Prophète et la Pandémie / du Moyen-Orient au jihadisme d'atmosphère topped the best-seller lists, and was translated into English as well as several other languages.
