Gilles Kepel

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gilles Kepel
Occupation	Political Scientist
Date Of Birth	Jun 30, 1955(1955-06-30)
Age	69
Birthplace	Paris
Country	France
Birth City	Île-de-France
Horoscope	Cancer

Gilles Kepel Biography

Gilles Kepel is one of the most popular and richest Political Scientist who was born on June 30, 1955 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Originally trained as a classicist, he started to study Arabic after a journey to the Levant in 1974. He first graduated in Philosophy and English, then completed his Arabic language studies at the French Institute in Damascus (1977–78), and received his degree from Sciences Po in 1980. He specialized in contemporary Islamist movements, and spent three years at the Centre d’études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales (CEDEJ) where he did the fieldwork for his PhD (defended 1983) on “Islamist movements in Egypt”, which would be translated and published in the UK in 1985 as his first English book as The Prophet and Pharaoh (US: Muslim Extremism in Egypt, 1986). This was the first book in any language to analyze contemporary Islamist militancy, and it remains a standard reader to this day in universities worldwide.

He received his Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (Habilitation to be a PhD supervisor) in 1993 – from a Committee presided by Pr René Rémond, President of Sciences Po, and including Professors Rémy Leveau, Ernest Gellner, Alain Touraine, and André Miquel. He was promoted to research director at CNRS in 1995, and spent academic year 1995–1996 in the US as New York Consortium Professor (a joint position at Columbia and New York Universities and the New School for Social Research). He used the library facilities at NYU and Columbia to prepare the bibliography for his best- selling book Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam based on two years of fieldwork in the Muslim World from Indonesia to Africa, which came out in English in 2001, and was translated in a dozen languages. Though the book was hailed due to its scope and perspective, it was criticized after 9/11 because it documented the failure of political Islamist mobilization in the late 1990s. Kepel answered his critics with his travelogue Bad Moon Rising in 2002. He then analyzed in retrospect that failure as the end of a first phase of what he would later designate as the “dialectics of Jihadism”. It epitomized the struggle against the “nearby enemy”, followed by a second phase (Al Qaeda) that learned the lessons of such failure and focused on the “faraway enemy”, which in turn failed to mobilize the Muslim masses under the banner of Jihadists. It was ultimately followed by a third phase consisting of network- based Jihadi cells in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, that of ISIS. This Jihad trilogy was further studied in The War for Muslim Minds (2006) and Beyond Terror and Martyrdom (2008). With his students, Kepel also co-edited Al Qaeda in its Own Words (2006) – a translation and analysis of chosen texts by Jihadi ideologues Abdallah Azzam, Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Gilles Kepel Net Worth

Gilles Kepel is one of the richest Political Scientist from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gilles Kepel 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Gilles Kepel, (born June 30, 1955) is a French political scientist and Arabist, specialized in the contemporary Middle East and Muslims in the West. He is Professor at the Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) and director of the Middle East and Mediterranean Chair at PSL, based at Ecole Normale Supérieure. He has been described by Alain Elkann as “the best possible guide through the frightening labyrinth of militant Islam.”

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In December 2010, the month of Mohammad Bouazizi’s self immolation at Sidi Bouzid, in Tunisia, that sparked the Arab Spring, Sciences Po closed the Middle East and Mediterranean Program. Kepel was elected a senior fellow at Institut Universitaire de France for five years (2010–2015), which allowed him to refocus on fieldwork. He was also offered the visiting “Philippe Roman Professorship in History and International Relations” at the London School of Economics” in 2009–2010.

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Ahmed Ranked on the list of most popular Political Scientist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in France. Gilles Kepel celebrates birthday on June 30 of every year.

In 2013, he documented the Arab upheavals with the travelogue Passion Arabe, a best-selling book that was awarded the “Pétrarque Prize” by France Culture radio and Le Monde daily as best book of the year.