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Initiative to stop the violence : Mubādarat waqf al-ʻunf : Sadat's assassins and the renunciation of political violence
- Title
- Initiative to stop the violence : Mubādarat waqf al-ʻunf : Sadat's assassins and the renunciation of political violence / al-Gamā'ah al-Islāmīyah ; translated by Sherman A. Jackson.
- Author
- Ḥāfiẓ, Usāmah Ibrāhīm.
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Gama'a al-Islamiyah (Organization)
- Description
- xii, 169 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- World thought in translation
- Uniform Title
- Mubadārat waqf al-ʻunf. English
- Alternative Title
- Mubadārat waqf al-ʻunf.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFD 15-169
- ISBN
- 9780300196771
- 0300196776
- LCCN
- 2014014245
- OCLC
- 877369789
- Author
- Ḥāfiẓ, Usāmah Ibrāhīm.
- Title
- Initiative to stop the violence : Mubādarat waqf al-ʻunf : Sadat's assassins and the renunciation of political violence / al-Gamā'ah al-Islāmīyah ; translated by Sherman A. Jackson.
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- World thought in translation
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Gama'a al-Islamiyah (Organization)
- Research Call Number
- JFD 15-169