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Islamism and its Enemies in the Horn of Africa
by De Waal, Alex (editor)
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1850657319
- ISBN 13
- 9781850657316
- Seller
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About This Item
(London: Hurst & Company, 2004) 1850657319. 215 x 137 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. xiii + (i) + 279, incl. index; tables. Very good condition. "America's 'war on terrorism' has thrown political Islam in Africa into the international spotlight. This book examines the social and political manifestations of Islamism in north-east Africa, including the Nile Valley and the Horn. Militant Islamists were a powerful force in the region in the 1990s, seizing state power in Sudan where they pursued far-reaching programmes for comprehensive social transformation. They succeeded in moving the sociopolitical consensus on to Islamist terrain, but their more ambitious aims were unattainable. By 2000 jihadist Islamism was in retreat, brought down by both its own political and ideological limitations and the wars waged by its adversaries. In the meantime the regional enemies of the Islamic state themselves faced exhaustion. Since 2001 a new set of dynamics has been unfolding in the region, reflecting American global domination and how the US agenda is refracted through local political struggles." .
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- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5134
- Title
- Islamism and its Enemies in the Horn of Africa
- Author
- De Waal, Alex (editor)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1850657319
- ISBN 13
- 9781850657316
- Publisher
- (London: Hurst & Company, 2004) 1850657319
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 2004
- Keywords
- Somalia. Sudan. Horn of Africa. Nile Valley. Islam. Islamism. Jihad. Muslim extremism. Fundamentalism. War on terror Modern Africa
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Africa;
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About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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