Introducing Ali Shariati

    A bit more from Gilles Kepel, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam, translated by Anthony F. Roberts (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 2002):   During the 1960s, at about the same time that Sayyid Qutb’s life was nearing its end in Egypt, Iranian Islam was beginning to take shape.  (It was, […]