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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ray Takeyh; Nikolas K Gvosdev |
| ISBN: | 0275976289 9780275976286 0275976297 9780275976293 |
| OCLC Number: | 52901052 |
| Description: | xvi, 186 p. ; 24 cm. |
| 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 Pharoah -- 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? |
| Responsibility: | Ray Takeyh and Nikolas K. Gvosdev. |
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