The roots of radical Islam / Gilles Kepel; Translated from the french by Jon Rothschild; New prefafe translated from the French by Pascale Ghazaleh.

Originally published as: Le prophète et pharaon.
Includes index.

Preface : twenty years on
- Introduction : journey to the ends of Islam
1. From one ordeal to another : 1954-66. In the beginning were the camps ; The 1965 'plot'
- 2. 'Signposts'. Sayyid Qutb, author and martyr ; Islamism or barbarism ; What is to be done? ; The Ulema intervene ; Appendix : works of Ayyid Qutb
- 3. The society of muslims. And God came to Shukri ; The new Hegira ; Living together in the Prophet's way ; Death of an Ulema
- 4. 'Al-Daʻwa' : legalists despite themselves. The purse-strings ; The four horsemen of the Apocalypse ; Making good use of Parliament
- 5. The vanguard of the 'Umma'. The student revolt ; The 'university of large numbers' ; In the shadow of the regime ; Changer la vie ; How to be a good Muslim ; For the good of the Copts ; June 1981 : checkmate
- 6. The sermons of Sheikh Kishk. A sheikh's childhood ; The Friday sermon
- 7. To assassinate pharaoh. The modern Tartars ; Holy war against the infidels ; Carrying out God's orders ; Killing Christians ; To assassinate pharaoh
Conclusion. The religious and the political ; Is the Islamist movement inevitable? ; Facets of a utopia

Gilles Kepel, one of the world's leading experts on Islamist movements, was amongst the first to identify Egypt as the cradle of contemporary Islamism. This seminal work, now with a new introduction, gives a profoundly perceptive account of the foundations of today's radical Islamic organisations, and offers compelling insights into the structure, theory and tactics employed by the various groups as early as the 1970s in Egypt.

Translated from the French