Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam

Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam

Cover of English translation
Author	Gilles Kepel
Original title	Jihad: Expansion et Déclin de l'Islamisme
Translator	Anthony F. Roberts
Language	French
Subject	Islam and politics Jihad Islam—20th century
Publisher	Éditions Gallimard Belknap Press
Publication date	2000
Published in English	2002
ISBN	0-674-00877-4 (English, Belknap Press)

Jihad The Trail of Political Islam (French: Jihad: Expansion et Déclin de l"Islamisme^[1]) is a book by French author and scholar Gilles Kepel. It was originally published in French in 2000 by Gallimard, with English translations by Anthony F. Roberts from Belknap Press in 2002^[1] and I.B. Tauris in 2006.

The book provides a detailed examination of the expansion and decline of what he terms the doomed extremist ideology of the Jihadist movement since the 1960s. The author explains the attraction of Islamism to humiliated and faltering segments of the Muslim population and outlines its severe shortcomings.