Gilles KEPEL Born, June 30, 1955, in Paris

Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
27, rue Saint-Guillaume - 75007 PARIS
gilles.kepel@sciences-po.fr
Tel : + 33 (0)1 45 49 72 34
Fax : + 33 (0)1 45 44 53 90

Fonctions actuelles | Languages | Books | Edited volumes

Present position

• Professor, Institute of Political Studies, Paris (1985 to present)
• Chair, Middle East and Mediterranean Studies
• Senior Researcher, CNRS (National Board for Scientific Research), Paris (1984- 2000) Director of the Doctoral Program on the Muslim World, Inst. of Political Studies (1994 to present) Visiting Professor, Columbia University, New-York (1996-97), Researcher, CEDEJ (Egyptian-French Center for Scientific Cooperation), Cairo, Egypt, 1980-83, London School of Economics (2009 to present).

Languages

• French, English, Arabic, Italian

Books

• Muslim Extremism in Egypt (California Univ. Press, revised paperback edition, 1993 - French, 1984, six translations)
• Les Banlieues de l’Islam [on Islam in France], Paris, Ed. du Seuil, 1987 (paperback, 1991)
• The Revenge of God (Penn State Univ. Press, 1993 - French, 1991, 20 translations)
• Allah in the West (Stanford Univ. Press, 1997 - French, 1994, six translations)
• Jihad/ The trail of political islam, (Harvard University Press, Spring 2002 ; French 2000. 11 translations)
• Bad Moon Rising : a Chronicle of the Middle East Today, Saqi Books, London, 2003 ; French 2002, 6 translations)
• The War for Muslim Minds : Islam and the West, Harvard University Press, 2004
• Beyond Terror and Martyrdom, Harvard University Press, 2008 (French: Terreur et Martyre, Relever le défi de civilisation, Flammarion, 2008) (Italian: Otre il Terrore e il Martirio, Feltrinelli, 2009).

Edited volumes

• Les musulmans dans la société française (with R. Leveau), Paris, PFNSP, 1988
• Intellectuels et Militants de l’Islam Contemporain (with Y. Richard), Ed. du Seuil, 1990 (Arabic Translation)
• Les Politiques de Dieu, Ed. du Seuil, Paris,1993 (two translations)
• Exils et Royaumes : Les appartenances au monde musulman aujourd’hui, Paris, PFNSP, 1994
• 2005 : Al-Qaïda dans le texte, PUF

Dernière mise à jour le : 30/11/09