The Prophet and the Pharaoh
By (author): "Jon Rothschild, Gilles Kepel"
ISBN0863560288
ISBN139780863560286
AsinThe Prophet and the Pharaoh
Original titleMuslim Extremism in Egypt: The Prophet and Pharaoh, With a New Preface for 2003
A study of Islamic fundamentalism?more properly called "Islamicism" in the country of its birth, Egypt. Gilles Kepel unwinds the skein of Islamicism from its renaissance in the 1950s to the eruption of various competing currents and factions in the 1970s and 1980s.
