An edition of Initiative to Stop the Violence (2015)

Initiative to Stop the Violence

Sadat's Assassins and the Renunciation of Political Violence

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An edition of Initiative to Stop the Violence (2015)

Initiative to Stop the Violence

Sadat's Assassins and the Renunciation of Political Violence

"Formerly one of the largest and most militant Islamic organizations in the Middle East, Egypt's al-Gama'ah al-Islamiyah is believed to have played an instrumental role in numerous acts of global terrorism, including the assassination of President Anwar Sadat and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. In later years, however, the organization issued a surprising renunciation of violence, repudiating its former ideology and replacing it with a shari'a-based understanding and assessment of the purpose and proper application of jihad. This key manifesto of modern Islamist thought is now available to an English-speaking audience in an eminently readable translation by noted Islamic scholar Sherman A. Jackson. Unlike other Western and Muslim critiques of violent extremism, this important work emerges from within the movement of Middle Eastern Islamic activism, both challenging and enriching prevailing notions about the role of Islamists in fighting the scourge of extremist politics, blind anti-Westernism and, alas, wayward jihad"--

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184

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Library of Congress
BP190.5.P34H3413, BP190.5.P34 H3413 2015

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Open Library
OL28541637M
Internet Archive
initiativetostop0000hafi
ISBN 13
9780300196771
LCCN
2014014245
OCLC/WorldCat
877369789

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