Islamist Networks - The Afghan-Pakistan Connection

Informationen zum Autor Mariam Abou Zahab and Olivier Roy Klappentext Al Qaida was unable to realize its lethal potential until it found sanctuary in Afghanistan! where Osama bin Laden fled after being expelled from Sudan. But why was the network's sanctuary not attacked before September 2001! especially after the bombing of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998? Abou Zahab and Roy argue that the Taliban was part of a much wider radical Islamist network in the region! whose true center was Pakistan! not Afghanistan. Al Qaida! the Taliban! the Pakistani Deobandis -- all of these groups are based in Pakistan! which continues to serve as the regional hub for Islamist movements and their terrorist offshoots. This indispensable book investigates and explains the almost twenty-five-year gestation of these interlinked radical Islamist networks of Pakistan! Central Asia! and Afghanistan! out of which Al Qaida emerged. Taking into account the networks'divergent histories and doctrinal rifts! the authors lay bare the political contingencies that enabled these disparate Islamist movements to coordinate with the aim of attacking what became their common adversary: the United States. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Ex-Soviet Central Asia The Tajik Party of the Islamic Renaissance (PIR) The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) Hizb ul-Tahrir (Party of Liberation) 3. Afghanistan: From the Islamists to the Taliban and Al-Qaida 4. Pakistan: From the Religious Conservatism to Political Radicalism Deobandi Movements and Violent Action The Active Jihadist Tendency in Kashmir and Afghanistan from the Harakat ul-Ansat to Jaish-i-Muhammad Salafism and Jihadism 5. Connections and Dynamics The Al-Qaida Movement and the Afghans The Fusion Between the Taliban and Al-Qaida The Role of Pakistan The Pakistani Military Intelligence Services and the Radical Tendency Pakistani Islamists at the Heart of Transnational Links The Pakistanisation of Al-Qaida The Blurring of Strategic and Ideological Alignments 6.Conclusion...

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• Authors: Mariam Abou Zahab, Olivier Roy, Roy Olivier, Mariam Abou Zahab, Mariam Abou Roy Zahab, Mariam Abou/ Roy Zahab
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 14.04.2015, delayed
• EAN: 9780231133654
• ISBN: 978-0-231-13365-4
• No. of pages: 92
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 203 mm x 13 mm
• Series: The CERI Series in Comparative Politics & International Studies; The CERI Series in Comparative Politics & International Studies; The CERI Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Afghanistan, Pakistan, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, RELIGION / General, HISTORY / Middle East / General, RELIGION / Islam / General, Islamic Studies, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Asian History, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities