TY - BOOK AU - Ḥāfiẓ,Usāmah Ibrāhīm AU - Jackson,Sherman A. ED - Jamāʻah al-Islāmīyah (Egypt) TI - Initiative to stop the violence: Sadat's assassins and the renunciation of political violence T2 - World thought in translation SN - 9780300211061 AV - BP190.5.P34 H3413 2014eb U1 - 363.3250962/09046 23 PY - 2014/// CY - New Haven, Connecticut PB - Yale University Press KW - Jamāʻah al-Islāmīyah (Egypt) KW - fast KW - Peace KW - Religious aspects KW - Islam KW - Jihad KW - Jihād KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Islamic Studies KW - bisacsh KW - HISTORY KW - Middle East KW - Egypt (see also Ancient KW - Egypt) KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS KW - Infrastructure KW - General KW - Egypt KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The Commonweal and communal harm -- A reality-based assessment -- Correcting misunderstandings N2 - English translation of a series of four corrective Arabic manifestos issued by the Gama'ah Islamiyah, who formed part of the coalition of radical Islamists groups that is believed to have played an instrumental role in acts of global terrorism, including the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. In 1997, the imprisoned leaders renounced political violence as a means of pursuing their goal of Islamicising the Egyptian state and society. This came of a reexamination of their former position in light of what they came to understand of shari'ah and the proper application of jihad UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=933110 ER -