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	Harvard University Press: The War for Muslim Minds : Islam and the West by Gilles Kepel
		In a fresh approach, Gilles Kepel focuses on the Middle East as a nexus of international disorder and decodes the complex language of war, propaganda, and terrorism that holds the region in its thrall.
		Kepel delineates the conditions for the acceptance of Israel, for the democratization of Islamist and Arab societies, and for winning the minds and hearts of Muslims in the West.
		Gilles Kepel is Professor of Middle East Studies at the Institute for Political Studies in Paris.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/KEPWAR.html (324 words)

	Daniel Pipes review of Gilles Kepel - Reader comments at DanielPipes.org
		Kepel with tasteless insults that reflect your methodology more than they opting for a smear campaign than in-depth analysis when one has insufficient knowledge of a given subject, not read a book, or lacks the intellectual breadth to deal with a given subject.
		Kepel "sees the entire decade of the 1980s "overshadowed by a power struggle between the Saudi monarchy and Khomeini's Iran" (forgetting a small episode called the Iran-Iraq war)..." Had you read anything by Mr.
		Kepel you would know that he was refering to the funding and support of radical islamic groups in the Middle East and the world for both ideological and direct control of these groups.
	www.danielpipes.org /comments/28363 (440 words)

	Are the Jihadists Losing the War? Gilles Kepel Thinks So, UCLA International Institute (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kepel traced a complex relationship between the Al Qaeda tacticians and the evolution of the Palestinian Intifada.
		Kepel returned to his point that for the jihadists to be successful they must link their spectacular action to a slogan that has mass resonance and appears to legitimize their deed.
		Gilles Kepel concluded that he saw cause for optimism in the failure of the jihadists to gain a mass base.
	www.international.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=15595 (1770 words)

	Saturday Breakfast RN - 5 August 2006 - The war for Muslim minds (transcript available)
		Gilles Kepel: Well the big challenge I guess is that there is a blend, and that a huge amount of young people from Muslim descent in Europe are at the same time European and Muslim, and this is changing to some extent, the way they define their relationship to the religion.
		Gilles Kepel: Well scholarships, but also in order that you help them pass the exam which is required to enter the school, to join the school, and something which to them in the past was seen as totally impossible, because they thought that it was a school that was beyond their reach if you wish.
		Gilles Kepel: I guess so, and this is the case for the majority, but as you know, the press is interested first and foremost in the minorities, and it didn't need much to plant the bombs a year ago in the London Underground.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/saturdayextra/stories/2006/1703076.htm (1369 words)

	Gilles Kepel. Muslim Extremism in Egypt: The Prophet a ...
		Kepel shows that Egyptian Islamist organizations have adopted a variety of approaches that are, more often than not, peaceful such as to effectively constitute what may be civil society in Egypt.
		Kepel argues that the extremist groups have been around since the departure of the European imperialist powers, seeking to create a "pan-Muslim" state as an alternative to the secular nation-states that occupy the region today.
		Citing the poverty, lack of opportunity and political repression as the fertile ground that created these groups, Kepel sympathetically goes on to discuss their agenda - essentially that "secular" "nation-states" are alien and counter to the history and culture of the Islamic world.
	spiritdimension.com /islam_/022/gilles-kepel-muslim-extremism-in-egypt--the-prophet-a.htm (666 words)

	The Failure of Islamism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jihad, Gilles Kepel's magisterial and highly readable study of the rise and decline of Islamic fundamentalism--or "Islamism" as it is commonly called--is a timely corrective.
		The aim of the attackers, Kepel states, was twofold: to terrorize America and to mobilize the support of Muslims for their jihad, or holy war, against the United States.
		Kepel concludes that the horrors committed by the Taliban and the political failure of radical Islam in Iran and elsewhere mean that "the Islamist movement will have much difficulty in reversing its trail of decline." In view of his intelligence and lucidity, it is to be hoped that such optimism is justified.
	www.worldandi.com /newhome/public/2002/november/bookpub.asp (1655 words)

	Gilles Kepel on the War on Terror: "An Ideological Bulwark against the West" - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
		Gilles Kepel, a French authority on Islam, discusses the impact of 9/11, the prospects for democracy in the Muslim world and the way Europe treats its Muslims.
		Gilles Kepel (51) teaches at the Paris Institute of Political Studies ("Sciences Po") and is considered one of the world's leading Islamic scholars.
		Kepel: A sense of identity with the suicide attackers, the martyrs.
	www.spiegel.de /international/spiegel/0,1518,454062,00.html (1948 words)

	Amazon.de: Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam: English Books: Gilles Kepel,Anthony Roberts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kepel divides his book into two parts--"Expansion" and "Decline"--and posits that the September 11, 2001, attacks, rather than demonstrating "strength and irrepressible might," highlighted the "isolation" and "fragmentation" of a "faltering" and probably doomed extremist ideology.
		Kepel follows Islamism from its theoretical underpinnings in the late 1960s and its rapid expansion into Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans, and Central, South, and Southeast Asia, through the Taliban's ascendancy in Afghanistan and beyond.
		Kepel's approach is not without weaknesses in many places around the globe, fundamentalist political Islam has transformed society and politics, even if Islamists have not been able to attain political rule.
	www.amazon.de /Jihad-Trail-Political-Gilles-Kepel/dp/0674008774 (510 words)

	The War for Muslim Minds
		Kepel, who holds degrees in Arabic, English and Philosophy and doctorates in sociology and political science, is a member of the prestigious Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (IEP) where he heads a post-graduate program on the Arab and Muslim worlds.
		Kepel opened his remarks by reviewing the strategies and tactics used inside Iraq by the various groups attacking the military and civilian forces who are now part of the US led effort to control the country.
		Kepel stated that now that shooting has become a daily occurrence in Iraq, the barbarous practice of beheading of hostages has been adopted by the insurgents to gain maximum publicity for their group and their demands, gain the attention of US society, and capture the mind and sympathy of Muslims worldwide.
	www.cnionline.org /eyeondc/reports/war-for-muslim-minds.htm (855 words)

	Gilles Kepel Information
		Gilles Kepel is a prominent French scholar and analyst of the Islamic and the Arab world.
		Gilles Kepel speaking at United States Institute of Peace, March 16, 2006.
		Gilles Kepel's analysis of Zarqawi U.S. Institute of Peace, March 16, 2006 (Audio, transcript and photos available).
	www.bookrags.com /Gilles_Kepel (332 words)

	Foreign Affairs - Whither Political Islam? - Mahmood Mamdani
		Zawahiri begins with a call to shift the jihad's target from the "nearby enemy" to the "faraway enemy." To succeed, he says, the jihad needs a new leadership that is sufficiently "scientific, confrontational, [and] rational" to rethink relations between "the elite" and "the masses" and to wield inspirational slogans.
		Kepel does have an inkling that the neoconservatives are a twin of al Qaeda--both came out of the Cold War on the winning side--and he devotes an entire chapter to them.
		In addition to the mix of interest and ideology, the two groups share global ambitions and a deep faith in the efficacy of politically motivated violence, and both count among their ranks cadres whose biographies are often tainted by early stints in the Trotskyist or the Maoist left.
	www.foreignaffairs.org /20050101fareviewessay84113a/mahmood-mamdani/whither-political-islam.html (2981 words)

	Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West by Gilles Kepel, reviewed by The Atlantic ...
		Islamism, Kepel argued, was the creation of the generation of Muslim intellectuals who came of age in the 1960s and 1970s, the first generation with no real memory of colonial rule.
		By the time Kepel wrote the introduction to the English-language Jihad, America had routed the Taliban, and it was unclear whether bin Laden and al-Zawahiri had survived the assault.
		Kepel is suspicious of ideological crusades and intent on seeing the Muslim world as it is -- not as either the left or Paul Wolfowitz might wish it to be.
	www.powells.com /review/2005_02_08.html (3374 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Are the Terrorists Failing?
		Kepel was in Washington last week promoting his book, and his comments provided a useful antidote to the political debate surrounding the visit by Iraq's interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi.
		Kepel argues that the insurgents' brutal tactics in Iraq -- the kidnappings and beheadings, and the car-bombing massacres of young Iraqi police recruits -- are increasingly alienating the Muslim masses.
		Kepel reminds us, too, that the best counterattack against the jihadists would be to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A55504-2004Sep27?language=printer (792 words)

	Gilles Kepel's Suburbs of Islam
		Kepel remarks that at the beginning the French administration considered with a benevolent eye the creation of the first “mosques” in workers dormitories.
		Gilles Kepel devotes a revealing chapter to this little known but powerful “pietist” organisation which today controls one of the “cathedral-mosques” in Paris.
		Kepel claims that through its control of the Grand Mosque in Paris and its reconciliation with the harkis, Algiers could discreetly encourage Algerians living in France to become French citizens while keeping their islamic identity.
	www.chris-kutschera.com /A/suburbs_islam.htm (1099 words)

	Amazon.de: The Revenge of God: Resurgence of Islam, Christianity and Judaism in the Modern World: English Books: Gilles ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kepel, an authority on Islamic fundamentalism, surveys the outburst of conservatism in major Western religions, and the effects of this movement on the secular state.
		Kepel traces the roots of the Islamic revolt to the pre-WW II Muslim Brotherhood, whose followers preached a total break with the secular state.
		Kepel shows how for all three religions the transformation is a more or less explicit rebellion against the enlightenment and rationalism, mostly founded in a desperation about the social end economic conditions in the wake of the recession of the 70:ties.
	www.amazon.de /Revenge-God-Resurgence-Christianity-Judaism/dp/0745612695 (1096 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Revenge of God: The Resurgence of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism in the Modern World: Books: Gilles ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kepel, an authority on Islamic fundamentalism, surveys the outburst of conservatism in major Western religions, and the effects of this movement on the secular state.
		Gilles Kepel, professor at the Institute of Political Studies of Paris is one of the world's foremost experts on the modern Middle East.
		Kepel shows how for all three religions the transformation is a more or less explicit rebellion against the enlightenment and rationalism, mostly founded in a desperation about the social end economic conditions in the wake of the recession of the 70:ties.
	www.amazon.ca /Revenge-God-Resurgence-Christianity-Judaism/dp/0271013141 (1336 words)

	openDemocracy Author -Gilles Kepel
		Gilles Kepel is a Professor at the Institut d’Études Politiques (IEP) in Paris and an expert on Muslim and Middle East affairs.
		Kepel is head of the post-graduate programme on the Arab and Muslims worlds, holding degrees in Arabic, English and Philosophy from IEP.
		Gilles Kepel, one of the world’s foremost experts on the modern Middle East, has written “Jihad: the Trail of Political Islam”, the first comprehensive attempt to follow the history and spread of Islamist political movements.
	www.opendemocracy.net /author/Gilles_Kepel.jsp (284 words)

	Amazon.com: Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam: Books: Gilles Kepel,Anthony F. Roberts
		Kepel divides his book into two parts--"Expansion" and "Decline"--and posits that the September 11, 2001, attacks, rather than demonstrating "strength and irrepressible might," highlighted the "isolation" and "fragmentation" of a "faltering" and probably doomed extremist ideology.
		Kepel follows Islamism from its theoretical underpinnings in the late 1960s and its rapid expansion into Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans, and Central, South, and Southeast Asia, through the Taliban's ascendancy in Afghanistan and beyond.
		Kepel's approach is not without weaknesses in many places around the globe, fundamentalist political Islam has transformed society and politics, even if Islamists have not been able to attain political rule.
	www.amazon.com /Jihad-Trail-Political-Gilles-Kepel/dp/0674008774 (625 words)

	Review of Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam
		By this standard, Kepel excels, for he adopts the preposterous idea that militant Islam is in decline and manages to fill 376 pages of text with examples and arguments that credibly support this idea.
		Kepel's take differs from Roy's in that Roy made much of a distinction between two nearly identical streams of militant Islam (which he dubbed Islamism and neofundamentalism), while Kepel instead finds a sociological premise for dismissing militant Islam.
		It was doing well in the 1980s, expanding its base, but fell apart in the 1990s due to an inability of the Islamists to keep intact the alliance they had cobbled together of the young urban poor and the devout middle class.
	www.danielpipes.org /article/991 (367 words)

	LRB \| Jeremy Harding : The Great Unleashing (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kepel prefers to take the broad schematic view, whence his constant reference, country by country, to the young urban poor and the disenchanted middle class, the wary partners who must dance at the same fire if government according to the will of God is to come about.
		To Kepel, the high-tide mark of Islamism was reached in 1989, with the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, an Islamist regime taking power in Sudan, the fatwa against Rushdie, the FIS poised for government and the emergence of the Palestinian Muslim Brothers (Hamas) from the first Intifada to challenge the PLO's nationalist agenda.
		Kepel plays down the murderous role of the Army, masquerading as jihadists when it went on killing sprees, in order to cause confusion and to alienate Islamist support, but he does point out that one GIA amir was so divisive in his fanaticism that he was widely held to be a Special Services agent.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v24/n14/print/hard01_.html (4783 words)

	Islamist Bubbles (Gilles Kepel and Roland Jacquard) by Martin Kramer
		Kepel argues in this book that bin Laden's brand of terrorism arose precisely from the failure of Islamism writ large: Al-Qaeda, driven to the four corners of the globe, struck Manhattan because it could not touch the Arab regimes it sought to destroy.
		Kepel has said of his French critics that they either failed to read his book, or read too much into it.
		Kepel devotes a chapter to the failure of the Islamist international to turn Bosnia into an Islamist cause.
	www.geocities.com /martinkramerorg/IslamistBubbles.htm (3045 words)

	SSRC Board of Directors
		Gilles Kepel is one of the world’s foremost experts on the modern Middle East.
		He is a professor at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (IEP), where he heads the post-graduate program on the Arab and Muslim worlds, and the director of research at the French National Science Research Council.
		Gilles holds degrees in Arabic, English and philosophy, a diploma from the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (IEP) and doctorates in sociology and political science.
	www.ssrc.org /inside/about/board_of_directors (2094 words)

	Gilles Kepel - Das Schwarzbuch des Dschihad - Perlentaucher.de, Kultur und Literatur Online
		Gilles Kepel untersucht in seinem Buch, wie auf den Trümmern des arabischen Nationalismus in Ägypten ein exemplarischer Islamismus entstand, der zur Ermordung Anwar as-Sadats führte.
		Rezensentin Alexandra Senfft, Islamwissenschaftlerin und Journalistin in Hamburg, zeigt sich begeistert von Gilles Kepels "komplexem" Werk "Das Schwarzbuch des Dschihad", in dem Kepel einen "aufregenden" Überblick über die politischen Geschehnisse in der arabisch- islamischen Welt von den 60er Jahren bis heute gibt.
		Gilles Kepels Studie über den Islam ist bereits vor zwei Jahren in Frankreich erschienen und hat dort für einigen Wirbel gesorgt, weiß Petra Kappert.
	www.perlentaucher.de /buch/9643.html (694 words)

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		From Professor Kepel’s book and to some extent from his remarks here, one gets the impression that the jihadists are in steep decline, and that the spasms of terrible violence we see these days are the last gasps of a movement that is a perversion of Islam.
		Gilles Kepel: True, and that kind of courage is clearly commendable in the case of an individual.
		Gilles Kepel: I think you have a point: the sanctified early period of Islam, which is conceived as a defining moment that sets standards for later conduct, is a period of military action.
	www.eppc.org /publications/pubID.1607/pub_detail.asp (10396 words)

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		Gilles Kepel offers the optimistic view that Islamist extremism has failed to fulfill its promise to Muslims and is on the decline.
		Among the references Kepel advances to support this view is an editorial by a respected Arab writer, Abdel Wahab al-Effendi, "The Sudanese Experiment and the Crisis of the Contemporary Islamist Movement: Lessons and Significance." It appeared in December 1999 in a London-based Arabic daily newspaper.
		Kepel interprets Effendi to mean that he and like-minded Islamist intellectuals and middle class allies were yearning for "an alliance with mainstream secular society whereby they can escape the trap of their own political logic." (363)
	webpages.ursinus.edu /rrichter/kepel.htm (2529 words)

	Gilles Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Fluent in Arabic, Kepel has traveled throughout the Muslim world gathering documents, interviews, and archival materials inaccessible to most scholars, in order to give a comprehensive understanding of the scope of Islamist movements, their past, and their present.
		Here, Kepel focuses on the Middle East as a nexus of international disorder and decodes the complex language of war, propaganda, and terrorism that holds the region in its thrall.
		In this analysis of one major philosopher by another, Gilles Deleuze identifies three pivotal concepts - duration, memory, and elan vital - that are found throughout Bergson's writings and shows the relevance of Bergson's work to contemporary philosophical debates.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Gilles (1136 words)

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