Gilles Kepel

Gilles Kepel is a prominent French scholar and analyst of the Islamic and the Arab world. He has written works on Radical Islam including The Trail of Political Islam.

His recent books received some criticism in the US for being too dismissive of the threat of Islamism or too critical of the US.

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.

Du jihad à la fitna, Paris, Bayard / BNF, 2005.
The roots of radical Islam, London, Saqi, 2005.
The Trail of Political Islam, London, I.B. Tauris, 2004.
Islam and the West, Cambridge, Mass / London, Belknap Press, 2004.
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, ^*, revised edition 2003.
La Revanche de Dieu: Chrétiens, juifs et musulmans à la reconquête du monde, Paris, Le Seuil, ^*, 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, ^*, 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, ^*, revised edition 1993.
Les banlieues de l'islam. Naissance d'une religion en France, Paris, Le Seuil, ^*, 2nd edition 1991.

Gilles Kepel
Gilles Kepel's analysis of Zarqawi U.S. Institute of Peace, March 16, 2006 (Audio, transcript and photos available).
Islamist Bubbles, an assessment of Kepel by Martin Kramer.

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