School Mentor's Guide

Colin Howard, Joy Carroll, Jane Owens, Deborah Langston

"Understanding political Islam retraces the human and intellectual development that has led Franc ʹois Burgat to one very firm conviction: that the roots of the tensions that afflict the Western world's relationship with the Muslim world are political rather than ideological. In his compelling account of interactions between personal life-history and professional and research trajectories, Burgat examines how the rise of political Islam has been expressed: first in the Arab world, and secondly in its interactions with French and Western societies ..." -- Page 4 vof cover.