The Audacious Ascetic - What Osama Bin Laden's Sound Archive Reveals About Al-qa'ida

Informationen zum Autor Flagg Miller is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Davis. Trained as a linguistic anthropologist, his first book, The Moral Resonance of Arab Media: Audio-cassette Poetry and Culture in Yemen, examined how Yemenis have used traditional poetry and new media technologies to envision a productive relationship between tribalism and progressive Muslim reform. Klappentext Argues that much of the received wisdom about al-Qa'ida's early years has to be reconsidered in light of this new evidence.

Product details

• Authors: Flagg Miller, Flagg Miller
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2015
• EAN: 9780190264369
• ISBN: 978-0-19-026436-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, Islamic Studies, Terrorism, armed struggle, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities