Volume 35, Number 12 · July 21, 1988
Islam and Power Politics
By Shaul Bakhash
The Neglected Duty: The Creed of Sadat's Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East
by Johannes J.G. Jansen
Macmillan, 246 pp., $19.75
Muslim Extremism in Egypt: The Prophet and Pharaoh
by Gilles Kepel, translated by Jon Rothschild
University of California Press, 281 pp., $27.50
The Islamic Struggle in Syria
by Dr. Umar F. Abd-Allah, foreword and postscript by Hamid Algar
Mizan, 300 pp., $24.95
Interpretations of Islam: Past and Present
by Emmanuel Sivan
Darwin, 255 pp., $19.95
The Political Language of Islam
by Bernard Lewis
University of Chicago Press, 168 pp., $14.95
After the arrest and trial of the members of the al-Jihad group who plotted and carried out the assassination of Egypt's president, Anwar Sadat, in October 1981, Egyptian journals became the forum for an informal debate between the men in the dock in a Cairo courtroom and leading members of Egypt's Muslim clergy. The case for the killers was made both in courtroom testimony and in a treatise, 'The Neglected Duty,' by the Jihad's ideologue, Abd al-Salam Faraj, who was sentenced to death and executed in 1982 along with the four assassins. Among those who argued the unofficial case for the prosecution in the press was Shaykh Ali Jadd al-Haqq, the Mufti, or chief religious dignitary, of Egypt. He issued a twenty-five-page refutation of Faraj's treatise.
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