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Contextualising Jihadi Thought

Author : Jeevan Deol
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199327485
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (274 download)

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Download or read book Contextualising Jihadi Thought written by Jeevan Deol and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global jihadism has been on policy agendas for more than two decades. Recent years have seen an increasing policy focus on countering the ideologies of al-Qaeda and of regional or local militant groups, often lumping them together under the rubric of a single 'global jihadi ideology'. Despite this, studies of jihadi ideas are at a relatively early stage and have yet to fully capture the richness of their wide-ranging social contexts and intellectual universes. This volume aims to address this lacuna at a time when wider currents of jihadi ideology seem poised to eclipse the long-term impacts of the decade-long global 'war of ideas' focused on al-Qaeda. Contextualising Jihadi Thought aims to transcend the dominance of security-studies approaches in the study of militant groups by creating a broader framework for understanding the varied intellectual histories, political engagements and geographies of jihadi ideas. Contributions to the volume span a range of academic disciplines and areas of policy research including history, anthropology, political science, religious studies and area studies. Challenging prevailing policy understandings of a single jihadi ideological narrative, the book's chapters study militant currents of thought and the responses to them in Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, India, Pakistan, Egypt, South-East Asia and Europe as well as the global contexts within which transnational jihadism has been developed and propagated.

Contextualising Jihadi Thought

Author : Jeevan Deol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231800037
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contextualising Jihadi Thought written by Jeevan Deol and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countering militant jihadism is a central policy concern worldwide, yet few studies capture the richness of this social and intellectual phenomenon. Departing from traditional methods of security studes, this volume launches an innovative approach to understanding jihadism, combining a number of disciplines and research areas while remaining sensitive to ethnographic considerations. It introduces a framework for conceptualizing jihadi movements, primarily through the study of ideology, geography, intellectual history, and political engagement. The essays in this collection also trace currents of jihadi thought and the response to them by the peoples and governments of Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, India, Pakistan, Egypt, Southeast Asia, and Europe. Edited by a scholar and an experienced diplomat, this volume maintains a balance between theory and practice unparalleled in other studies of this issue., reviewing a previous edition or volume

Jihadi Thought and Ideology

Author : Rüdiger Lohlker,Tamara Abu-Hamdeh
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3832537058
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Jihadi Thought and Ideology written by Rüdiger Lohlker,Tamara Abu-Hamdeh and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2013 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of Jihadi ideology is still in an early stage. The contributions of this volume contribute to this field: Ideologues of Jihad, Maoists turned Jihadists, a theory of framing of Jihadi ideas, the analysis of Jihadi masculinities and of Jihadi role models presented in obline videos will further our understanding of Jihadi ideas and ideologies by exploring underresearched aspects of Jihadi ideology and theology. Dschihadistische Ideologien sind noch nicht ausreichend untersucht. Die Beiträge in diesem Band tragen zu einem vertieften Verständnis bei. Mit dschihadistischen Ideologen, zu Dschihadisten gewordene Maoisten, einem theoretischen Ansatz zur Analyse dschihadistischen Denkens, eine Untersuchung dschihadistischer Männlichkeitsvorstellungen und dschihadistische role models in Onlinevideos ermöglichen Einblicke in sonst wenig bekannte Phänomene.

Twenty-First Century Jihad

Author : Elisabeth Kendall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857727680
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Twenty-First Century Jihad written by Elisabeth Kendall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term 'jihad' has come to be used as a byword for fanaticism and Islam's allegedly implacable hostility towards the West. But, like other religious and political concepts, jihad has multiple resonances and associations, its meaning shifting over time and from place to place. Jihad has referred to movements of internal reform, spiritual struggle and self-defence as much as to 'holy war'. And among Muslim intellectuals, the meaning and significance of jihad remain subject to debate and controversy. With this in mind, Twenty-First Century Jihad examines the ways in which the concept of jihad has changed, from its roots in the Quran to its usage in current debate. This book explores familiar modern political angles, and touches on far less commonly analysed instances of jihad, incorporating issues of law, society, literature and military action. As this key concept is ever-more important for international politics and security studies, Twenty-First Century Jihad contains vital analysis for those researching the role of religion in the modern world.

Islam After Liberalism

Author : Faisal Devji
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190851279
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Islam After Liberalism written by Faisal Devji and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars discuss how 'Islam' and 'liberalism' have been entwined historically and politically and how Muslims have thought about this longstanding relationship.

Fear and Loathing

Author : Ziauddin Sardar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1849042225
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Fear and Loathing written by Ziauddin Sardar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quarterly magazine of ideas and issues showcasing ground breaking thinking on Islam and what it means to be a Muslim in a rapidly changing, interconnected world.

A Concise Guide to Islam (Introducing Islam)

Author : Ayman S. Ibrahim
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493442767
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book A Concise Guide to Islam (Introducing Islam) written by Ayman S. Ibrahim and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many in the English-speaking world, Islam remains a mysterious religion. What is Islam in the first place? Does it mean "peace," or does it mean "submission"? Can it mean both? What is jihad? Sharia? Hadith? Who is Allah? What is a caliph, caliphate, or infidel? In this compact volume, an expert in the study of Islam provides explanations for more than one hundred important Islamic concepts and terms, which are divided into major sections: texts, history, faith and belief, practice and religious duties, jurisprudence, and movements. Ayman Ibrahim first introduces the section, then defines each concept or term briefly. Readers can read a chapter at a time or flip through the book to find concepts or terms as needed. Each term is described based on original Muslim sources, mainly written in Arabic, as well as ample scholarly studies. This introductory guide is written for anyone with little to no knowledge of Islam. It complements the author's A Concise Guide to the Quran and A Concise Guide to the Life of Muhammad. Together, these three volumes are useful as a set of resources on Islam.

Islamism and Social Movements in North Africa, the Sahel and Beyond

Author : Aurelie Campana
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351388266
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Islamism and Social Movements in North Africa, the Sahel and Beyond written by Aurelie Campana and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As North African, Middle Eastern, and Sahelian societies adapt to the post-Arab Spring era and the rise of violence across the area, various groups find in Islam an answer to the challenges of the era. This book explores how Islamist social movements, Sufi brotherhoods, and Jihadi armed groups, in their great diversity, elaborate their social networks, and recruit sympathizers and militants in complicated times. The book innovates by transcending regional boundaries, bringing together specialists of the three aforementioned regions. First, it highlights how geographically dispersed religious groups define themselves as members of a larger, universal Umma, while evolving in deeply embedded local contexts. Second, its contributors prioritize in-depth fieldwork research, offering fine-grained, original insights into the manifold mobilization of Islamist-inspired social movements in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Mali, Senegal, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, and Western Europe. The book sheds light on the tense debates and competition taking place amongst the different trends composing the Islamist galaxy and between other groups that also claim an Islamic legitimacy, including Sufi brotherhoods and ethnic and/or tribal groups as well. This book was originally published as a special issue of Mediterranean Politics.

The Pakistan Paradox

Author : Christophe Jaffrelot
Publisher : Random House India
ISBN 13 : 8184007078
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Pakistan Paradox written by Christophe Jaffrelot and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of Pakistan stands riddled with tensions. Initiated by a small group of select Urdu-speaking Muslims who envisioned a unified Islamic state, today Pakistan suffers the divisive forces of various separatist movements and religious fundamentalism. A small entrenched elite continue to dominate the country’s corridors of power, and democratic forces and legal institutions remain weak. But despite these seemingly insurmountable problems, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan continues to endure. The Pakistan Paradox is the definitive history of democracy in Pakistan, and its survival despite ethnic strife, Islamism and deepseated elitism. This edition focuses on three kinds of tensions that are as old as Pakistan itself. The tension between the unitary definition of the nation inherited from Jinnah and centrifugal ethnic forces; between civilians and army officers who are not always in favour of or against democracy; and between the Islamists and those who define Islam only as a cultural identity marker.

The New Political Islam

Author : Emmanuel Karagiannis
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812249720
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The New Political Islam written by Emmanuel Karagiannis and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islamist political parties and groups are on the rise throughout the Muslim world, constituting a new political Islam that is global in scope and yet local in action. Emmanuel Karagiannis explains how various Islamists have endorsed human rights, democracy, and justice to gain influence and mobilize supporters.

War and Peace in Somalia

Author : Michael Keating
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190058013
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book War and Peace in Somalia written by Michael Keating and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last thirty years Somalia has experienced violence and upheaval. Today, the international effort to help Somalis build a federal state and achieve stability is challenged by deep-rooted grievances, local conflicts and a powerful insurgency led by Al-Shabaab. Consisting of forty-four chapters by conflict resolution specialists and the world's leading experts on Somalia, this volume constitutes a unique compendium of insights into the insurgency and its impact. War and Peace in Somalia explores the legacies of past violence, especially impunity, illegitimacy and exclusion, and the need for national reconciliation. Drawing on decades of experience and months of field research, the contributors throw light on diverse forms of local conflict, its interrelated causes, and what can be done about it. They share original research on the role of women, men and youth in the conflict, and present new insight into Al-Shabaab--particularly the group's multi-dimensional strategy, the motivations of its fighters, their foreign links, and the prospects for engagement. This ground-breaking volume illuminates the war in Somalia, and sets out what can and should be done to bring it to an end. For policymakers and researchers covering Somalia, East Africa, extremism or conflict resolution, this is a must-read.

In Their Own Words

Author : C. Christine Fair
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190062037
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book In Their Own Words written by C. Christine Fair and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This path-breaking volume reveals a little-known aspect of how Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, a jihadist terrorist group, functions in Pakistan and beyond by translating and commenting upon a range of publications produced and disseminated by Dar-ul-Andlus, the publishing wing of LeT. Only a fraction of LeT's cadres ever see battle: most of them are despatched on nation-wide "prozelytising" (dawa) missions to convert Pakistanis to their particular interpretation of Islam, in support of which LeT has developed a sophisticated propagandist literature. This canon of Islamist texts is the most popular and potent weapon in LeT's arsenal, and its scrutiny affords insights into how and who the group recruits; LeT's justification for jihad; its vision of itself in global and regional politics; the enemies LeT identifies and the allies it cultivates; and how and where it conducts its operations. Particular attention is paid to the role that LeT assigns to women by examining those writings which heap extravagant praise upon the mothers of aspirant jihadis, who bless their operations and martyrdom. It is only by understanding LeT's domestic functions as set out in these texts that one can begin to appreciate why Pakistan so fiercely supports it, despite mounting international pressure to disband the group.

Fighting the Last War

Author : Tamir Bar-On
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793639388
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Fighting the Last War written by Tamir Bar-On and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the political and security threats posed by the domestic radical right in Western countries have been consistently exaggerated since 1945. This has allowed governments to justify censoring and repressing their political opponents, including many who cannot be fairly described as being affiliated with the radical right.

The Literature of Lashkar-E-Tayyaba

Author : FAIR.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198883935
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Literature of Lashkar-E-Tayyaba written by FAIR. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception in Afghanistan in the late 1980s, the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT), also known as the Jamaat-ul-Dawa (JuD), has arguably been the most threatening and disruptive terrorist organization in South Asia and beyond. While there is considerable scholarship on its history and operations, few scholars have exploited the organization's vast publications. This volume is the first scholarly effort to curate a sample of LeT's Urdu-language publications and then translate them into English for the scholarly community studying this group and related organizations. While the original texts were written and published by Dar al Andalus, which exclusively publishes LeT's books, pamphlets, posters, speeches, and other materials with the explicit intention of diffusing the group's ideology, raising funds, and cultivating volunteers for the organization, the authors hope that by rendering the group's materials more accessible, this book can contribute to the myriad efforts to combat such groups and the violence they perpetrate.

The Audacious Ascetic

Author : Flagg Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190613394
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Audacious Ascetic written by Flagg Miller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-11 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 2002, over 1500 audiotapes were discovered in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in a house once occupied by Osama bin Laden. The Audacious Ascetic is the first book to explore this extraordinary archive. It details how Islamic cultural, legal, theological and linguistic vocabularies shaped militants' understandings of al-Qa'ida, and, more controversially, challenges the notion that the group's original adversary was America and the 'far enemy'. Miller argues that Western security agencies' 'management' of Bin Laden's growing reputation went awry. When magnified through global media coverage, narratives of al-Qa'ida's coherence were exploited by Osama and his militant supporters for their own ends. Focusing on over a dozen previously unpublished speeches by Bin Laden as well as on discussions by top al-Qa'ida leaders and Arab- Afghans, Miller chronicles the Saudi radical's evolving relationship with a host of Muslim insurgencies that found his stripe of asceticism (zuhd) tactically useful, especially when circulated via audiotape. These recordings also reveal militants' disenchantment when Bin Laden, marginalized through the '90s, began pandering to Western television networks in his attempt to direct heterodox Islamist armed struggles against America. Such audio evidence exposes al-Qa'ida's lack of coordination before 9-11 and invites scrutiny of dominant narratives of Western law enforcement, intelligence and terrorism analysts.

Martyrdom in Modern Islam

Author : Meir Hatina
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139868306
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Martyrdom in Modern Islam written by Meir Hatina and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Islamic resurgence in modern times has received extensive treatment in scholarly literature. Most of this literature, however, deals with the concept of jihad and disputes between radicals and their rivals over theological and political issues, and far less with martyrdom and death. Moreover, studies that do address the issue of martyrdom focus mainly on 'suicide' attacks - a phenomenon of the late twentieth century and onward - without sufficiently placing them within a historical perspective or using an integrative approach to illuminate their political, social and symbolic features. This book fills these lacunae by tracing the evolving Islamic perceptions of martyrdom, its political and symbolic functions, and its use of past legacies in both Sunni and Shi'i milieus, with comparative references to Judaism, Christianity and other non-Islamic domains. Based on wide-ranging primary sources, along with historical and sociological literature, the study provides an in-depth analysis of modern Islamic martyrdom and its various interpretations while also evaluating the historical realities in which such interpretations were molded and debated.

Ancient Religions, Modern Politics

Author : Michael A. Cook
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691173346
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Religions, Modern Politics written by Michael A. Cook and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Islam is more political and fundamentalist than other religions Why does Islam play a larger role in contemporary politics than other religions? Is there something about the Islamic heritage that makes Muslims more likely than adherents of other faiths to invoke it in their political life? If so, what is it? Ancient Religions, Modern Politics seeks to answer these questions by examining the roles of Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity in modern political life, placing special emphasis on the relevance—or irrelevance—of their heritages to today's social and political concerns. Michael Cook takes an in-depth, comparative look at political identity, social values, attitudes to warfare, views about the role of religion in various cultural domains, and conceptions of the polity. In all these fields he finds that the Islamic heritage offers richer resources for those engaged in current politics than either the Hindu or the Christian heritages. He uses this finding to explain the fact that, despite the existence of Hindu and Christian counterparts to some aspects of Islamism, the phenomenon as a whole is unique in the world today. The book also shows that fundamentalism—in the sense of a determination to return to the original sources of the religion—is politically more adaptive for Muslims than it is for Hindus or Christians. A sweeping comparative analysis by one of the world's leading scholars of premodern Islam, Ancient Religions, Modern Politics sheds important light on the relationship between the foundational texts of these three great religious traditions and the politics of their followers today.