Initiative to Stop the Violence
al-Gama'ah al-Islamiyah
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Initiative to Stop the Violence
by al-Gama'ah al-Islamiyah, Sherman Jackson
Published
2015
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pages
182
ISBN-13
9781322564937
Description
"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"--
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Who is the author of Initiative to Stop the Violence?
Initiative to Stop the Violence was written by al-Gama'ah al-Islamiyah, Sherman Jackson.
When was Initiative to Stop the Violence published?
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