Gilles Kepel
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Gilles Kepel at Chatham House in 2012
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| Born |
30 June 1955 Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Fields |
Political science, Sociology |
| Institutions |
Paris Institute of Political Studies, Institut Universitaire de France, London School of Economics, New York University, Columbia University, CNRS |
| Thesis | Le Prophète et le Pharaon (1984) |
| Known for | Political Islam and Arab World |
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Website gilleskepel |
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Gilles Kepel (born 30 June 1955) is a French political scientist and specialist on the Islamic and contemporary Arab world. He is Professor at Sciences Po Paris and member of the Institut Universitaire de France.
He graduated in Arabic and philosophy, with two PhDs in sociology and political science. 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.
He contributes regularly to Le Monde, The New York Times, La Repubblica, El Pais, and several Arab media outlets. He is a member of the High Council of the Arab World Institute and Academic Director of the Kuwait Program at IEP. In 2010, he was appointed to the Institut Universitaire de France. He was interviewed in the 2004 BBC documentary The Power of Nightmares: The Rise Of The Politics Of Fear.
Kepel has made significant contributions to the understanding of Islam as an ideological, political, and social force, both in the Muslim world and within immigrant communities in the West. He has focused in particular on the fundamentalist phenomenon, showing that since the 1970s fundamentalism has been a crucial force throughout the world and across religions—among Protestants, Catholics, and Jews as well as Muslims. Fundamentalism is to a large extent a negative reaction to modernity, which it views as an external corruption that must be eradicated in order to return to an earlier age of religious purity.
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