The prophet and pharaoh: Muslim extremism in Egypt
Gilles Kepel
240 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0863560288
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Language: English
Publish: December 30, 1985
A study of Islamic fundamentalism— more properly called “Islamicism” in the country of its birth, Egypt. Gilles Kepel unwinds the skein of Islamicism from its renaissance in the 1950s to the eruption of various competing currents and factions in the 1970s and 1980s.