The receding shadow of the prophet: the rise and fall of radical political Islam/ Ray Takeyh and Nikolas K. Gvosdev.

By: Takeyh, RayContributor(s): Gvosdev, Nikolas KMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004Description: xvi, 186 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0275976289 (alk. paper); 0275976297 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Islam and politics -- Islamic countries | Islamic fundamentalism -- Islamic countries | Islam | Islamic countries -- Politics and governmentDDC classification: 320.557
Contents:
1. The Islamist challenge -- Islamism versus Muslim politics -- The Islamist outlook -- Attractions and pitfalls of Islamism -- 2: Iran: the Islamist state and the reformist agenda -- Revolution and reform -- Reform's real track record -- A Civil War in the right -- The new Iran? -- 3: Islamism in Algeria: a history of hope and agony -- The growing political and social gaps -- The evolution of political Islam in Algeria -- The rise and fall of the Islamic salvation front (FIS) -- Whither Algeria? -- 4: Egypt: the struggle for a nation's soul -- Nasser and the Muslim brotherhood -- Killing Pharaoh -- The Egyptian stalemate -- Islamism and moderation in Egypt -- 5: Islamism in the former Yugoslavia -- Islam and nationality in Yugoslavia: a general overview -- Muslims, Islam, and the war in Bosnia, 1990-2002 -- Albanians, Islam, and Kosovo, 1974-1999 -- Did the Balkans become an Islamist beachhead? -- 6: From the Red star to the green crescent? -- Islamism in the former Soviet Union -- The shadow of the crescent? Assumptions about Islam in the Soviet Union -- Islam, Gorbachev, and the breakup of the USSR -- Post-Soviet Islam: general observations -- State Islam and the Eurasian consensus -- Islamists ascendant? the case of Tajikistan -- Islamist ascendant? the case of Chechnya -- The Islamist threat in Eurasia: a realistic assessment -- 7: Some thoughts on Islamist failures in Sudan and Afghanistan -- Sudan: trajectory of failure -- Afghanistan: an Islamist Cambodia?
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-182) and index.

1. The Islamist challenge -- Islamism versus Muslim politics -- The Islamist outlook -- Attractions and pitfalls of Islamism -- 2: Iran: the Islamist state and the reformist agenda -- Revolution and reform -- Reform's real track record -- A Civil War in the right -- The new Iran? -- 3: Islamism in Algeria: a history of hope and agony -- The growing political and social gaps -- The evolution of political Islam in Algeria -- The rise and fall of the Islamic salvation front (FIS) -- Whither Algeria? -- 4: Egypt: the struggle for a nation's soul -- Nasser and the Muslim brotherhood -- Killing Pharaoh -- The Egyptian stalemate -- Islamism and moderation in Egypt -- 5: Islamism in the former Yugoslavia -- Islam and nationality in Yugoslavia: a general overview -- Muslims, Islam, and the war in Bosnia, 1990-2002 -- Albanians, Islam, and Kosovo, 1974-1999 -- Did the Balkans become an Islamist beachhead? -- 6: From the Red star to the green crescent? -- Islamism in the former Soviet Union -- The shadow of the crescent? Assumptions about Islam in the Soviet Union -- Islam, Gorbachev, and the breakup of the USSR -- Post-Soviet Islam: general observations -- State Islam and the Eurasian consensus -- Islamists ascendant? the case of Tajikistan -- Islamist ascendant? the case of Chechnya -- The Islamist threat in Eurasia: a realistic assessment -- 7: Some thoughts on Islamist failures in Sudan and Afghanistan -- Sudan: trajectory of failure --
Afghanistan: an Islamist Cambodia?

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