The Receding Shadow of the Prophet: The Rise and Fall of Radical Political Islam Takeyh, Ray and Gvosdev, Nikolas K.

The tragic events of September 11, 2001, in the United States renewed fears of an Islamist wave destabilizing the countries of the Muslim world. Yet the alarm raised over a previous wave of Islamism in the early 1990s, which threatened to overwhelm Egypt and Algeria and spill into the Balkans and Central Asia, proved to be unfounded. Takeyh and Gvosdev assert that while Islamism has been successful as an oppositional ideology of wrath, it has failed to provide Islamic societies with any feasible alternative to undertaking fundamental political and economic reforms. By detailing the defeat of Islamist movements in the Middle East, the Balkans, and Central Asia over the last decade, this book encourages us not to overestimate the "Islamist threat" in the current climate and the years to come.

DOI: 10.1336/0275976289 Mouse over the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to learn more about this book or related books published by Greenwood Publishing Group. Visit the Greenwood Publishing Group page for this title: http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/C7628.aspx

The Receding Shadow of the Prophet: The Rise and Fall of Radical Political Islam Hardback, 208 pages, $76.95 Copyright ©2004, Praeger Publishers ISBN: 0-275-97628-9 DOI: 10.1336/0275976289

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