The Importance of Being Lucid

The Importance of Being Lucid

Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam
by Gilles Kepel
Harvard University Press, 2002 454 pp $29.95

Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam
by John L. Esposito
Oxford University Press, 2002 196 pp $25.00

 


Political Islam is all the rage. But is the rage all of political Islam? Since bursting into Western consciousness with the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the cluster of movements and figures of Islamism and political Islam have been variously an inspiration and a terror-and regularly both to many-a political football in sundry regional co...