Gilles Kepel

Gilles Kepel (born 30 June 1955) is a French political scientist, specialist of the Islam and contemporary Arab world. He is Professor at the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) in Paris and member of the Institut Universitaire de France.

He graduated in Arabic and philosophy, with two doctorates in sociology and political sciences. He also taught at New York University in 1994, and at Columbia University in 1995. He chaired the Philippe Roman chair in History and International Relations at the London School of Economics in 2009-2010.

Gilles Kepel is the author of several books, since the publication of "The Prophet and the Pharao/ Islamist movements in Sadat's Egypt", in 1984, his books are translated all over the world. He contibutes regularly to Le Monde, the New-York Times, La Repubblica, El Pais, and several Arab medias.

Gilles Kepel is a member of the High Council of the Arab World Institute and Academic Director of the Kuwait Program at IEP.

Books by Gilles Kepel

• Beyond terror and martyrdom: The future of the Middle East, Cambridge, Harvard Belknap Press, 2008.
• G. Kepel and J-P Milelli (ed.) Al Qaeda in its own words, HUP, 2008.
• Du jihad à la fitna, Paris, Bayard / BNF, 2005.
• The roots of radical Islam, London, Saqi Books, 2005.
• Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam, London, I.B. Tauris, 2004.
• The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West, Cambridge, Mass / London, Belknap Press, 2004. — tranaslation of Fitna. guerre au coeur de l'islam : essai, Paris, Gallimard, 2004.
• Bad moon rising: A chronicle of the Middle East today, London, Saqi, 2003.
• Jihad : expansion et déclin de l'islamisme, Paris, Gallimard, [2000], revised edition 2003.
• La Revanche de Dieu: Chrétiens, juifs et musulmans à la reconquête du monde, Paris, Le Seuil, [1991], 2003.
• Chronique d'une guerre d'Orient, automne 2001. Brève chronique d'Israël et de Palestine, avril-mai 2001, Paris, Gallimard, 2002.
• Allah in the West: Islamic movements in America and Europe, Oxford, Polity, 1997.
• A l'ouest d'Allah, Paris, Le Seuil, [1994], 1996.
• The revenge of God: The resurgence of Islam, Christianity and Judaism in the modern world, Cambridge, Polity, 1994.
• Le Prophète et le Pharaon. Aux sources des mouvements islamistes, Paris, Le Seuil, [1984], revised edition 1993.
• Les banlieues de l'islam. Naissance d'une religion en France, Paris, Le Seuil, [1987], 2nd edition 1991.