Binding: Hardcover
Description: This book tells the story of how Al Qaeda grew in the West. In forensic and compelling detail Jytte Klausen traces how Islamist revolutionaries exiled in Europe and North America in the 1990s helped create and control one of the world's most impactful terrorist movements - and how after the near - obliteration of the organization during the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks they helped build it again. She shows how the diffusion of Islamist terrorism to Europe and North America has been driven not by local grievances of Western Muslims but by the strategic priorities of the international Salafi - jihadist revolutionary movement. That movement has adapted to Western repertoires of protest: agitating for armed insurrection and religious revivalism in the name of a warped version of Islam. The jihadists - Al Qaeda and the Islamic State and their many affiliates and associates - also proved to be amazingly resilient. Again and again the movement recovered from major setbacks. Appealing to disaffected Muslims of immigrant origin and alienated converts to Islam Jihadist groups continue to recruit new adherents in Europe and North America street - side in neighborhoods in jails and online through increasingly clandestine platforms. Taking a comparative and historical approach deploying cutting - edge analytical tools and drawing on her unparalleled database of up to 6,500 Western jihadist extremists and their networks Klausen has produced the most comprehensive account yet of the origins of Western jihadism and its role in the global movement.
Title: Western Jihadism A Thirty Year History
Author(s): Klausen Jytte (Lawrence A. Wien Professor Of International Cooperation Lawrence A. Wien Professor Of International Cooperation Brandeis University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198870791
Pages: 560 Pages
Publication Date: 10/12/2021
Category: Terrorism, Armed Struggle