The Receding Shadow of the Prophet: The Rise and Fall of Radical Political Islam [Hardcover] [Jun 30, 2004] Takeyh, Ray and Gvosdev, Nikolas K.

Takeyh, Ray; Gvosdev, Nikolas K.

ISBN 10: 0275976289 / ISBN 13: 9780275976286

Editore: Praeger, 2004

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• Titolo: The Receding Shadow of the Prophet: The Rise and Fall of Radical Political Islam [Hardcover] [Jun 30, 2004] Takeyh, Ray and Gvosdev, Nikolas K.
• Editore: Praeger
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0275976289
• ISBN 13: 9780275976286
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

The tragic events of September 11, 2001, in the United States renewed fears of an Islamist wave destabilizing the countries of the Muslim world. Yet the alarm raised over a previous wave of Islamism in the early 1990s, which threatened to overwhelm Egypt and Algeria and spill into the Balkans and Central Asia, proved to be unfounded. Takeyh and Gvosdev assert that while Islamism has been successful as an oppositional ideology of wrath, it has failed to provide Islamic societies with any feasible alternative to undertaking fundamental political and economic reforms. By detailing the defeat of Islamist movements in the Middle East, the Balkans, and Central Asia over the last decade, this book encourages us not to overestimate the "Islamist threat" in the current climate and the years to come.

Informazioni sugli autori

RAY TAKEYH is Professor and Director of studies at the Near East and South Asia Center of the National Defense University and author of The Origins of the Eisenhower Doctrine: The U.S., Britain, and Nasser's Eqypt, 1953-57.

NIKOLAS K. GVOSDEV is Executive Editor of The National Interest and a senior fellow for strategic studies at the Nixon Center. His most recent work is Civil Society and the Search for Justice in Russia.

RAY TAKEYH is Professor and Director of studies at the Near East and South Asia Center of the National Defense University and author of The Origins of the Eisenhower Doctrine: The U.S., Britain, and Nasser's Eqypt, 1953-57.

NIKOLAS K. GVOSDEV is Executive Editor of The National Interest and a senior fellow for strategic studies at the Nixon Center. His most recent work is Civil Society and the Search for Justice in Russia.