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A schism has emerged between mainstream Islamist movements in the Muslim world (e.g. Hamas of Palestine and Hezbullah of Lebanon) and the uprooted militants who strive to establish an imaginary ummah, or Muslim community, not embedded in any particular society or territory. Roy provides a... read more
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This book is the sequel to my Failure of Political Islam (first published in French in 1992 and in English in 1994), in which I argued that the conceptual framework of Islamist parties was unable to provide an effective blueprint for an Islamic state.
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- Olivier Roy (Author)
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