Islamic Fascism

“THE CONTROVERSIAL GERMAN WORK–NOW UPDATED, EXPANDED, AND IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME!“As someone long skeptical about the notion of ‘Islamofascism, ’ I concede that Hamed Abdel-Samad makes the strongest case yet for seeing Islamism as a derivative of fascism. The depth of his knowledge and the elegance of his argument make his book both a powerful read and an important analysis to understand the enemy.” –DANIEL PIPES, PhD, Middle East ForumPRAISE FOR THE ORIGINAL GERMAN EDITION: “In compelling words, Hamed Abdel-Samad formulates an enlightened critique of Islamism … An interesting and valuable book.” – dw.de (Deutsche Welle [German Radio] website)“Hamed Abdel-Samad was once an Islamist. Now the public commentator combats what he once stood for with a holy furor. … He is the Egyptian Salman Rushdie.” - Sueddeutsche Zeitung (South German News)

Hamed Abdel-Samad is a German-Egyptian political scientist and author of several best-selling books in Germany. A former UNESCO consultant on Arab education, he has lectured on Islam at the University of Erfurt and Jewish and Islamic history at the University of Munich. The son of a Sunni imam in the Egyptian city of Giza, he now ranks among Islam’s fiercest critics. Educated in English and French at Cairo’s Ain Shams University, politics at the German University of Augsburg, and Japanese at Kwansai Gakuin University in Japan, he has published five books, most recently the best-selling The End of the Islamic World and War or Peace- The Arab Revolution and the Future of the West. His columns appear regularly in German national newspapers such as Die Zeit, Die Welt, and Cicero, and he appears frequently as a guest on television and radio programs across the German-speaking world.