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Gilles Kepel, (born June 30, 1955) is a French political scientist and Arabist, specialized in the contemporary Middle East and Muslims in the West.
Gilles Kepel, né le 30 juin 1955 à Paris, est un politologue français. Spécialiste du monde arabe contemporain et de l'islamisme radical, essayiste, il est professeur des universités à l'université Paris Sciences et Lettres.
Apr 5, 2017 · When a terrorist made a death threat against Gilles Kepel, France’s most famous scholar of Islam, it deepened his embroilment in a national debate over Muslim assimilation and extremism.
An Optimist Who Won’t Be Fooled. Gilles Kepel, France’s greatest expert on Islamist politics, sees French scholarly values and savoir faire as a bulwark against the mediocrity of Judith Butler...
May 19, 2017 · Gilles Kepel, one of Europe's leading experts on Islamism, the Middle East, and North Africa, is a professor at the Institute of Political Studies, Paris (Sciences Po). His numerous books -- which include Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam , The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West , and Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future ...
May 12, 2020 · In 2016, the French political scientist Gilles Kepel was condemned to die for being “an experienced Arabist.” Immediately after the French-born terrorist Larossi Abballa murdered a police officer...
That idea is deftly countered in this brilliant and provocative book by a leading French specialist on modern Islam. Gilles Kepel argues that the attack can only be understood in the light of the rise and fall of political Islam, or Islamism as he calls it, over the past quarter-century.
Gilles Kepel is a French political scientist and Arabist who specializes in the contemporary Middle East and Muslims in the West.
Apr 7, 2023 · Gilles Kepel. Gilles Kepel authored more than 20 books on the Middle East, North Africa, Islam in France and Europe, translated in many languages (lastly, Away from Chaos / The Middle East and the Challenge to the West, Columbia Univ. Press).
Nov 17, 2020 · Gilles Kepel’s latest volume undertakes an ambitious and sweeping history of the Middle East, with a focus on the Levant, since the Yom Kippur War of October 1973.
