Gilles Kepel

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Gilles Kepel (born 30 June 1955) is a prominent French scholar and analyst of the Islamic and the Arab world. He has written works on Radical Islam including Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam which have received some criticism in the US for being too dismissive of the threat of Islamism or too critical of the US^{[citation needed]}.

His most recent book is 'The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West'. In the book, according to Atlantic Monthly, he suggests that, 'the war for Muslim minds will be won in Riyadh, Cairo, and the suburbs of Paris. In Washington it can't be won--only lost.'

1 Biography
2 Books by Gilles Kepel
3 Articles and Interviews
4 External links

[edit] Biography

He holds degrees in Arabic, English and philosophy. A graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (better known as Sciences Po), Kepel has received doctorates in political science and in sociology.

[edit] Books by Gilles Kepel

Du jihad à la fitna, Paris, Bayard / BNF, 2005.
The roots of radical Islam, London, Saqi, 2005.
Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam, London, I.B. Tauris, 2004.
The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West, Cambridge, Mass / London, Belknap Press, 2004. — tranaslation of Fitna. guerre au coeur de l'islam : essai, Paris, Gallimard, 2004.
Bad moon rising: A chronicle of the Middle East today, London, Saqi, 2003.
Jihad : expansion et déclin de l'islamisme, Paris, Gallimard, [2000], revised edition 2003.
La Revanche de Dieu: Chrétiens, juifs et musulmans à la reconquête du monde, Paris, Le Seuil, [1991], 2003.
Chronique d'une guerre d'Orient, automne 2001. Brève chronique d'Israël et de Palestine, avril-mai 2001, Paris, Gallimard, 2002.
Allah in the West: Islamic movements in America and Europe, Oxford, Polity, 1997.
A l'ouest d'Allah, Paris, Le Seuil, [1994], 1996.
The revenge of God: The resurgence of Islam, Christianity and Judaism in the modern world, Cambridge, Polity, 1994.
Le Prophète et le Pharaon. Aux sources des mouvements islamistes, Paris, Le Seuil, [1984], revised edition 1993.
Les banlieues de l'islam. Naissance d'une religion en France, Paris, Le Seuil, [1987], 2nd edition 1991.