Militant Islamist Ideology

Author : Youssef Aboul-Enein
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781612510156

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Militant Islamist Ideology by Youssef Aboul-Enein Pdf

In offering a comprehensive explanation of how militant Islamists have hijacked the Islamic religion, Aboul-Enein provides a realistic description of the militant threat, which is far different and distinct from Islamist political discourse and the wider religion of Islam. A key adviser at the Joint Intelligence Task Force for Combating Terrorism, he argues that winning the war against Militant Islamists requires a more complete understanding of their ideology. Clearly defining the differences between Islam, Islamist, and military Islamist, he highlights how militant Islamist ideology takes selected fragments of Islamic history and theology and weaves them into a narrow, pseudo-intellectual ideology to justify their violence against Muslims and non-Muslims alike.

Author : Munir Masood Marath
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000431537

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Fallacy of Militant Ideology by Munir Masood Marath Pdf

This book highlights the conflict between jihadist militants and the West as essentially ideological in character. It has serious implications internalized by Muslim societies, with the boundaries of faith changed by the interplay of socio-political variables. Violence emerged in Muslim societies as a means of emancipation or identity when the state could not resolve the conflict situation. Although the militants were influenced by socio-political factors, they have always looked to religion to justify their acts of violence. This book, exposing the fallacy of the narrative evolved by the militants, offers a counter narrative. It reinterprets the primary sources, unravels the historical and socio-political constructs, unmasks the heroes and enemies, challenges the dichotomies between theory and practice, re-establishes the boundaries between heresy and faith, and attempts to transform the current ideological discourse. ~ This book will be of interest to students and scholars of the discourse between religion and security, political Islam, Islamic history, jihad, Middle Eastern studies, and South Asian studies.

Author : Stig Jarle Hansen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199327874

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Al-Shabaab in Somalia by Stig Jarle Hansen Pdf

Hansen explores the history of the Somalia based Al Harakat Al Shabaab from 2005 to 2012, offering the first in-detail history of one of the most important Al-Qaeda affiliates today and the first to conquer large territories. He anchors the organisation in its local context, describing it as set in the nexus of global and local streams of influence, employing terror strategically, often in order to offset diplomatic and military defeats. He then follows it as an early network into the post-2010 phase where it struggles against a superior enemy but still remains an actor to be reckoned with.

Author : Klaus Hock,Nina Käsehage
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643912756

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'Militant Islam' vs. 'Islamic Militancy'? by Klaus Hock,Nina Käsehage Pdf

Author : Stephen Vertigans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134126385

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Militant Islam by Stephen Vertigans Pdf

Militant Islam provides a sociological framework for understanding the rise and character of recent Islamic militancy. It takes a systematic approach to the phenomenon and includes analysis of cases from around the world, comparisons with militancy in other religions, and their causes and consequences. The sociological concepts and theories examined in the book include those associated with social closure, social movements, nationalism, risk, fear and ‘de-civilising’. These are applied within three main themes; characteristics of militant Islam, multi-layered causes and the consequences of militancy, in particular Western reactions within the ‘war on terror’. Interrelationships between religious and secular behaviour, ‘terrorism’ and ‘counter-terrorism’, popular support and opposition are explored. Through the examination of examples from across Muslim societies and communities, the analysis challenges the popular tendency to concentrate upon ‘al-Qa’ida’ and the Middle East. This book will be of interest to students of Sociology, Political Science and International Relations, in particular those taking courses on Islam, religion, terrorism, political violence and related regional studies.

Author : Nozar Alaolmolki
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313372223

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Militant Islamists by Nozar Alaolmolki Pdf

In this book, Alaolmolki, an expert on the transnational politics of Central Asia and the Persian Gulf, provides a global view of militant Islamist ideologies, activities, and connections. Unlike many extant books on this topic, Militant Islamists does not examine only one particular factor or driving force in political violence such as suicide bombings; rather, this work studies transnational militant Islam on several levels: domestic (e.g., the role of poverty and lack of democracy in Arab and Muslim nations); regional (e.g., the Palestinian-Israeli conflict; Hizbullah in Lebanon; Jemmah Islamiyan in Southeast Asia; Hizb al-Tahrir in Central Asia); global (e.g., the role of the United States and Western Europe in inadvertently helping transnational Islamists). Ultimately, the author traces the effects of the U.S.-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq on militant Islamist terrorism, concluding that militant Islam is spreading, not receding, and that the United States would better rely on soft, rather than hard (military), power to overcome it.

Author : Klaus Hock,Nina Käsehage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Islam and politics
ISBN : 9783643962751

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'Militant Islam' Vs. 'Islamic Militancy'? by Klaus Hock,Nina Käsehage Pdf

"Discourses on 'radical Islam,' on 'Islamic extremism,' or on 'religious violence' in Islamic contexts are en vogue-- in and beyond academia. But in view of the highly contested topic of political Islam, the challenge starts already with the preferred terminology. What actually are we talking about when we talk about 'salafism,' 'jihadism,' 'Islamic terrorism,' etc.? This edited volume provides a collection of contributions that due to their respective academic cultures and disciplinary locations display a multifaceted variety of approaches to the research field and its subject."--Back cover.

Author : Bryan Griffin,Herbert I. London,Jed L. Babbin
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Islam and world politics
ISBN : 1530333628

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The Encyclopedia of Militant Islam by Bryan Griffin,Herbert I. London,Jed L. Babbin Pdf

From the Middle East to Africa, Asia, Europe and even the US, the challenge of militant Islam is hard to deny. But given its dispersed nature as a series of local groups and regional conflicts, the global scope of the jihadist campaign has proven difficult for Westerners to grasp. Militant Islam is not confined to the Middle East but is a truly international movement that has engaged in open warfare against peoples, states and cultures all over the world. Now for the first time, a single comprehensive resource collects all of the available information about forty-four of the most active militant Islamic groups world-wide in one easy-to-use volume. In order to counter this violent movement we must first understand how it operates, ho w it is funded, and who leads it. In stunning detail, The Encyclopedia of Militant Islam reveals the global contours of the Jihadist threat. The book is indispensable for anyone who hopes to understand the tangled web of alliances, ideological ties, financial flows, and strategic goals that unite dozens of seemingly disparate movements into a powerful and implacably destructive force. The Encyclopedia of Militant Islam belongs on the shelf of any reader who is seriously concerned about the fate of our civilization.

Author : Raphaël Lefèvre
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108596442

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Jihad in the City by Raphaël Lefèvre Pdf

Tawhid was a militant Islamist group which implemented Islamic law at gunpoint in the Lebanese city of Tripoli during the 1980s. In retrospect, some have called it 'the first ISIS-style Emirate'. Drawing on two hundred interviews with Islamist fighters and their mortal enemies, as well as on a trove of new archival material, Raphaël Lefèvre provides a comprehensive account of this Islamist group. He shows how they featured religious ideologues determined to turn Lebanon into an Islamic Republic, yet also included Tripolitan rebels of all stripes, neighbourhood strongmen with scores to settle, local subalterns seeking social revenge as well as profit-driven gangsters, who each tried to steer Tawhid's exercise of violence to their advantage. Providing a detailed understanding of the multi-faceted processes through which Tawhid emerged in 1982, implemented its 'Emirate' and suddenly collapsed in 1985, this is a story that shows how militant Islamist groups are impacted by their grand ideology as much as by local contexts – with crucial lessons for understanding social movements, rebel groups and terrorist organizations elsewhere too.

Author : Meghnad Desai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Islam and politics
ISBN : 0755609697

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Rethinking Islamism by Meghnad Desai Pdf

"Despite increasingly frantic calls - especially after the London bombings of July 7, 2005 - for western leaders to 'understand Islam better', there is a still a critical distinction that needs to be made between 'Islam' as religion and 'Islamism' in the sense of militant mindset. As the author of this provocative new book sees it, it is not a more nuanced understanding of Islam that will help the western powers defeat the jihadi threat, but rather a proper understanding of Islamism: a political ideology which is quite distinct from religion. While Islamism may be draped in religious imagery and suffused by apocalyptic language, it nevertheless is similar in nature to secular ideologies of terror. And once, the author holds, this is properly appreciated, the ways to defeat it will become much better evident. Historically sophisticated and passionately argued, "Rethinking Islamism" makes a powerful case by a master theorist of political philosophy. It will be essential reading for students and policy-makers in the fields of politics, current affairs and religion."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : Daniel Pipes
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Islam and politics
ISBN : 0393325318

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Militant Islam Reaches America by Daniel Pipes Pdf

Long before September 11, 2001, Daniel Pipes publicly warned Americans that militant Islam had declared war on America--yet sadly, Americans failed to take heed. The publication of Militant Islam Reaches America finally brought Pipes the attention he deserves. Dividing his work into two parts, Pipes first defines militant Islam, stressing the large and crucial difference between Islam, the faith, and the ideology of militant Islam. He then discusses the relatively new subject of Islam in the United States, and how it has developed rapidly in the last decade. In Militant Islam Reaches America, the product of thirty years of extensive research, Pipes provides one of the most incisive examinations of the growing radical Islamic movement ever written.The paperback edition includes a new essay, "Jihad and the Professors."

Author : Marius Deeb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Islam and politics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119687965

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Militant Islamic Movements in Lebanon by Marius Deeb Pdf

Author : Martijn de Koning,Carmen Becker,Ineke Roex
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030422073

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Islamic Militant Activism in Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany by Martijn de Koning,Carmen Becker,Ineke Roex Pdf

Based on ethnographic research in Belgium, The Netherlands, and Germany, this book presents a novel approach to studying Muslim militant activism. While much existing research focuses on the process of radicalization, these authors introduce a different set of questions that investigate specific modes of activism, and their engagement with dominant discourses and practices in media and state policies. Drawing on social movement theory and Foucault’s work on counter-conduct, this research explores how daʿwa networks came about, and how activists developed themselves in interaction with state and media practices. This perspective highlights a form of activism and resistance in which activists turn against policies and debates centring on Muslims and Islam, while attempting to create and protect an alternative space for themselves in which they can experience Islam according to their own perception of it. The study will contribute to debates about resistance, social movements and militant activism among Muslims in Europe.

Author : Haroro J. Ingram
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317038719

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The Charismatic Leadership Phenomenon in Radical and Militant Islamism by Haroro J. Ingram Pdf

Haroro J. Ingram journeys through over a century of history, from the Islamist modernists of the late-1800s into the 21st century, in the first full length examination of the charismatic leadership phenomenon in Islamist radicalism and militancy. Exhaustively researched and founded upon a suite of innovative multidisciplinary paradigms, this book features case studies of Hassan al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb, Abdullah Azzam, Osama Bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki. At a micro-level, Ingram argues that charismatic leaders act as vehicles for the evolution of modern Islamist radicalism and militancy. At a macro-level, he argues that the transformative charisma phenomenon in Islamist radicalism and militancy produces complex chains of charismatic leaders as individual figures rise by leveraging, to varying degrees, the charismatic capital of preceding charismatic leaders. Within these case studies, Ingram offers new approaches to understanding the nuances of these complex phenomena; from his ideal-types of charismatic leadership in Islamist militancy (spiritual guides, charismatic leaders and neo-charismatic leaders) to his framing of al-Qaeda as a ’charismatic adhocracy’. The result is an authoritative analysis of a phenomenon largely ignored by scholars of both charismatic leadership and Islamism. Ultimately, this ground-breaking investigation offers important insights into the complex nuances that drive the rise and evolution of not only Islamist militancy but radical and militant groups more broadly.

Author : Ekaterina A. Stepanova
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199533558

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Terrorism in Asymmetrical Conflict by Ekaterina A. Stepanova Pdf

This volume combines qualitative research with the analysis of available data on trends in modern terrorism and the use of primary sources and writings. It puts forwad an original typology of terrorism based on the overall level of a militant group's goals and the extent to which its terrorist activities are linked to a broader armed conflict.