The Caravan - Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad

Informationen zum Autor Thomas Hegghammer is a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Universitetet i Oslo. Trained in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford and Sciences Po, Paris, he is the author of the prize-winning book Jihad in Saudi Arabia (Cambridge, 2010) and is the editor of Jihadi Culture (Cambridge, 2017). He has conducted extensive fieldwork in the Middle East, including interviews with former militants, and he has testified on jihadism in front of the US Congress and the British Parliament. Klappentext Traces Abdallah Azzam's path from a West Bank village to the battlefields of Afghanistan and explains why jihadism went global. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Prologue; 1. Palestinian; 2. Brother; 3. Fighter; 4. Scholar; 5. Vagabond; 6. Writer; 7. Pioneer; 8. Diplomat; 9. Manager; 10. Recruiter; 11. Ideologue; 12. Mujahid; 13. Resident; 14. Enemy; 15. Martyr; 16. Icon; Conclusion.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Thomas Hegghammer, Hegghammer Thomas
• Editore: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780521765954
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76595-4
• Dimensioni: 160 mm x 235 mm x 40 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Islam, Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Asiatische Geschichte, Nahost, Bezug zum Islam und islamischen Gruppen, HISTORY / Middle East / General, RELIGION / Islam / General, Weltreligionen / Islam, Asien / Geschichte, Naher Osten - Nahost, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern history, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Islamic