The Encyclopedia Of Militant Islam

Author : Bryan Griffin,Herbert I. London,Jed L. Babbin
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : Godfrey H. Jansen
Publisher : London [etc.] : Pan Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015002172735

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Militant Islam by Godfrey H. Jansen Pdf

Author : Klaus Hock,Nina Käsehage
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643912756

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

Author : Zachary Abuza
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1588262375

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Militant Islam in Southeast Asia by Zachary Abuza Pdf

Zachary Abuza has traveled to most of the hot spots of Islamic militancy in Southeast Asia. Drawing on this intensive on-the-ground investigation, he explains the growing--and increasingly violent--Islamic political consciousness in Southeast Asia.

Author : Klaus Hock,Nina Käsehage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Anthony Tucker-Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000127012890

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The Rise of Militant Islam by Anthony Tucker-Jones Pdf

At the end of the Cold War, the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction replaced the Soviet Union as the new enemy of world peace. This book examines from an insider's perspective how Western intelligence misinterpreted every landmark event on the road to 9/11 and ultimately failed to curb global jihad.

Author : Daniel Pipes
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : Raphaël Lefèvre
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Ahmed Rashid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300093454

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Jihad by Ahmed Rashid Pdf

Examines the rise of militant Islamic groups in five former Soviet republics in Central Asia, discussing the poverty, political corruption, and religious repression that have fueled their growth.

Author : Faisal Devji
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197524107

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Terrorist in Search of Humanity by Faisal Devji Pdf

Faisal Devji argues that new forms of militancy, such as the actions of al-Qaeda, are informed by the same desire for agency and equality that animates other humanitarian interventions, such as environmentalism and pacifism. To the militant, victimized Muslims are more than just symbols of ethnic and religious persecution-they represent humanity's centuries-long struggle for legitimacy and agency. Acts of terror, therefore, are fueled by the militant's desire to become a historical actor on the global stage. Though they have yet to build concrete political institutions, militant movements have formed a kind of global society, and as Devji makes clear, this society pursues the same humanitarian objectives that drive more benevolent groups.

Author : Fawaz A. Gerges
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0156031701

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Journey of the Jihadist by Fawaz A. Gerges Pdf

"Middle Eastern expert and media commentator Gerges takes us into the mindset of the jihadi, or holy warrior, that lies behind so many front-page headlines yet remains nearly impenetrable. Even before the 9/11 attacks, Gerges had gone in search of those whose lives were devoted to this crusade of hatred, first against their own secular governments, then against the West and the United States in particular. He talked extensively with Kamal al-Said Habib, a founder of the Jihadist Movement. Using Habib's life story, as well as the stories of dozens of other Islamic fundamentalists, Gerges's book puts a human face to events in the Middle East over the last thirty years, from the civil war in Lebanon to the war in Iraq and the terrorist attacks in London. Behind the jihadism of Habib and others, a battle is being waged for the soul of Islam itself."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Author : Robin Wright
Publisher : Touchstone
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015053538057

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Sacred Rage by Robin Wright Pdf

For a generation, Muslim extremists have targeted Americans in an escalation of terror that culminated in the September 11 attacks. Our shared confusion -- Who are the attackers? Why are we targets? -- is cleared away in a book as dramatic as it is authoritative. Updated with new chapters on Afghanistan and the the broader Islamic movement, Sacred Rage combines Robin Wright's extraordinary reportage on the Islamic world with an historian's grasp of context to explain the roots, the motives, and the goals of the Islamic resurgence. Wright talked to terrorists, militant religious leaders, and fighters from Beirut to Islamabad and Kabul. Their voices of rage reverberate here -- right up to the attacks in New York and Washington. Across continents extends a challenge we fail to understand at our peril. Sacred Rage now casts light on the war being fought in the shadows.

Author : Glover Shipp
Publisher : Covenant Pub Incorporated
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1892435357

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Militant Jihad by Glover Shipp Pdf

Author : Glover Shipp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1420867652

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Militant Jihad by Glover Shipp Pdf

This book is unique in that it explores the world view of the Arabic people, a view of life and culture that has been incorporated into and brought to extreme applications in the minds of Muslim terrorists. The volume also has a section on the Christian response to terrorism.

Author : Natana J. Delong-Bas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199715619

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Wahhabi Islam by Natana J. Delong-Bas Pdf

Before 9/11, few Westerners had heard of Wahhabism. Today, it is a household word. Frequently mentioned in association with Osama bin Laden, Wahhabism is portrayed by the media and public officials as an intolerant, puritanical, militant interpretation of Islam that calls for the wholesale destruction of the West in a jihad of global proportions. In the first study ever undertaken of the writings of Wahhabism's founder, Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1702-1791), Natana DeLong-Bas shatters these stereotypes and misconceptions. Her reading of Ibn Abd al-Wahhab's works produces a revisionist thesis: Ibn Abd al-Wahhab was not the godfather of contemporary terrorist movements. Rather, he was a voice of reform, reflecting mainstream 18th-century Islamic thought. His vision of Islamic society was based upon a monotheism in which Muslims, Christians and Jews were to enjoy peaceful co-existence and cooperative commercial and treaty relations. Eschewing medieval interpretations of the Quran and hadith (sayings and deeds of the prophet Muhammad), Ibn Abd al-Wahhab called for direct, historically contextualized interpretation of scripture by both women and men. His understanding of theology and Islamic law was rooted in Quranic values, rather than literal interpretations. A strong proponent of women's rights, he called for a balance of rights between women and men both within marriage and in access to education and public space. In the most comprehensive study of Ibn Abd al-Wahhab's interpretation of jihad ever written, DeLong-Bas details a vision in which jihad is strictly limited to the self-defense of the Muslim community against military aggression. Contemporary extremists like Osama bin Laden do not have their origins in Wahhabism, she shows. The hallmark jihadi focus on a cult of martyrdom, the strict division of the world into two necessarily opposing spheres, the wholescale destruction of both civilian life and property, and the call for global jihad are entirely absent from Ibn Abd al-Wahhab's writings. Instead, the militant stance of contemporary jihadism lies in adherence to the writings of the medieval scholar, Ibn Taymiyya, and the 20th century Egyptian radical, Sayyid Qutb. This pathbreaking book fills an enormous gap in the literature about Wahhabism by returning to the original writings of its founder. Bound to be controversial, it will be impossible to ignore.