- Additional Authors
- Jamāʻah al-Islāmīyah (Egypt)
- Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 169 pages)
- 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 (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Mubadārat waqf al-ʻunf.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Arabic.
- LCCN
- 2014014245
- OCLC
- ssj0001405664
- Author
Ḥāfiẓ, Usāmah Ibrāhīm.
- Title
Initiative to stop the violence [electronic resource] : Sadat's assassins and the renunciation of political violence / al-Gama'ah al-Islamiyah ; translated by Sherman A. Jackson.
- Imprint
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
- Series
World thought in translation
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Language
Translated from the Arabic.
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Jamāʻah al-Islāmīyah (Egypt)