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Guide to Islamist movements / edited by Barry Rubin.

Title
Guide to Islamist movements / edited by Barry Rubin.
Publication
Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2010.

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Additional Authors
Rubin, Barry M.
Description
2 v. (liii, 663 p.) : maps; 26 cm.
Summary
Islamism takes many forms, ranging from electoral participation to revolutionary terrorism and global jihad, and influences the politics of virtually every country around the globe. The guide examines the movement's diverse groups, ideas, and activities, including the beliefs, organizational structures, and interactions of the different groups. It focuses on thinkers and ideologies, movements and parties, and responding government policies and repression. --from publisher description.
Subject
  • Islam > Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • Islamic fundamentalism > Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • Political parties > Islamic countries > Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • Islamic countries > Handbooks, manuals, etc
Genre/Form
Handbooks and manuals
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Volume 1. An Introduction to Assessing Contemporary Islamism -- \Global Jihad -- \Sub-Saharan Africa -- \Asia -- \Australia and the Pacific -- \Central Asia -- \North Africa and the Midle East -- \Volume 2. North Africa and the Middle East -- \Europe -- \Western Hemisphere.
ISBN
  • 9780765617477 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0765617471 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2009010524
OCLC
315239751
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library