Gilles kepel. Away from chaos: the Middle east and the challenge to the west. New York: Columbia university press, 2019. ISBN 9780231551946. £30.000 hardcover. £30.00 e-book. 366 pages

Gilles Kepel’s latest volume undertakes an ambitious and sweeping history of the Middle East, with a focus on the Levant, since the Yom Kippur War of October 1973. He takes this year as a point of ...