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Islamic Fundamentalism

Davidson, Lawrence. Islamic Fundamentalism. Greenwood, 1998. A needed corrective to the view that Muslims should be equated with fundamentalism and terrorism.

Dennis, Anthony J. The Rise of the Islamic Empire and the Threat to the West. Wyndham, 1996. An informative survey of Islam's shift from a religious to a revolutionary movement.

Esposito, John L. Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam. Oxford University Press, 2002. A plea for tolerance and understanding of political Islam in the wake of the September 11 attacks.

Gerges, Fawaz A. The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global. Cambridge Middle East Studies., 2005. Focuses on the radical Muslim network that formed out of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Kepel, Gilles. Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam. Trans. Anthony Roberts. Harvard University Press, 2002. Claims that the recent violence of Islamic fundamentalism stems from the movement's failure rather than from its success.

Mawsilili, Ahmad, and others, eds. Historical Dictionary of Islamic Fundamentalist Movements in the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey. Scarecrow, 1999. An essential reference to the concepts, doctrine, and leaders of Islamic fundamentalism.

Rashid, Ahmed. Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia. Yale University Press, 2002. A journalist looks at the political and religious situation in Central Asia and warns that we ignore it at our peril.

Rashid, Ahmed. Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. Yale University Press, 2001. An insightful look at the extremist Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

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