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This book addresses the Jihad movement that created the largest African state of the 19th century: the Sokoto Caliphate, existing for 99 years from 1804 until i
Everyday Jihad
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Authors: Bernard Rougier
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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As southern Lebanon becomes the latest battleground for Islamist warriors, Everyday Jihad plunges us into the sprawling, heavily populated Palestinian refugee c
Jihad
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Authors: Gilles Kepel
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Kepel has traveled throughout the Muslim world gathering documents, interviews, and archival materials, in order to give readers a comprehensive understanding o
The End of the Jihâd State
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Stretching from Morocco to China, the Umayyad caliphate based its expansion and success on the doctrine of jihad--armed struggle to claim the whole earth for Go
The Unraveling
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Authors: John R. Schmidt
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How did a nation founded as a homeland for South Asian Muslims, most of whom follow a tolerant nonthreatening form of Islam, become a haven for Al Qaeda and a r