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Aaron Y. Zelin uncovers the history of Tunisian involvement in the jihadi movement and offers an in-depth examination of the reasons why so many Tunisians became drawn to jihadism following the 2011 revolution. Your Sons Are at Your Service is a meticulously researched account that challenges simplified views of jihadism's appeal and success.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
1. The Generation of Zaytunah
2. A Scattered Group with a Less-Than-Perfect Image
3. Come Do Jihad
4. Sons of Tunisia
5. Tunisia Is a Land of Dawa
6. Hear from Us, Not About Us
7. Tunisians Can Be Found Everywhere in the Land of Jihad
8. It Was Mostly the Tunisians Who Were Involved in Takfir
9. Honest Ones Among the Dawa People Must Come to al-Sham
10. We Are Here to Protect You from This Nonbeliever Government
11. The Future of the Tunisian Jihadi Movement
Author’s Note on Terminology
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Aaron Y. Zelin is the Richard Borow Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a visiting research scholar in the Department of Politics at Brandeis University. He is the founder of the website Jihadology.net, a primary source archive of global jihadi materials.
Summary
Aaron Y. Zelin uncovers the history of Tunisian involvement in the jihadi movement and offers an in-depth examination of the reasons why so many Tunisians became drawn to jihadism following the 2011 revolution. Your Sons Are at Your Service is a meticulously researched account that challenges simplified views of jihadism’s appeal and success.
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Zelin’s step-by-step analysis of the response of the Tunisian state toward AST-orchestrated violence is particularly
illuminating.
