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In their own words [electronic resource] : voices of Jihad : compilation and commentary / David Aaron.

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by Aaron, David, 1938-
Call Number 363.3250922 22
Publication Date 2008
Summary The actual statements and writings of jihadi terrorists paint a revealing self-portrait of their motives, plans, and mind-set, and offer more profound insights into the jihadi threat.
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New political religions, or, An analysis of modern terrorism [electronic resource] / Barry Cooper.

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by Cooper, Barry, 1943-
Call Number 303.625 22
Publication Date 2004
Summary Annotation "In New Political Religions, or an Analysis of Modern Terrorism, Barry Cooper applies the insights of Eric Voegelin to the phenomenon of modern terrorism. Cooper points out that the chief omission from most contemporary studies of terrorism is an analysis of the "spiritual motivation" that is central to the actions of terrorists today. When spiritual elements are discussed in conventional literature, they are grouped under the opaque term religion. A more conceptually adequate approach is provided by Voegelin's political science and, in particular, by his Shellingian term pneumopathology - a disease of the spirit." "While terrorism has been used throughout the ages as a weapon in political struggles, there is an essential difference between groups who use these tactics for more or less rational political goals and those seeking more apocalyptic ends. Cooper argues that today's terrorists have a spiritual perversity that causes them to place greater significance on killing than on exploiting political grievances. He supports his assertion with an analysis of two groups that share the characteristics of a pneumopathological consciousness - Anum Shinrikyo, the terrorist organization that poisoned thousands of Tokyo subway riders in 1995, and Al-Qaeda, the group behind the infamous 9/11 killings." "In the ongoing conversations among specialists in terrorist studies, as well as the ordinary discourse of citizens in western democracies wishing to understand the world around them, this book will add a distinctive voice."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Searching for a King [electronic resource] : Muslim nonviolence and the future of Islam / Jeffry R. Halverson.

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by Halverson, Jeffry R.
Call Number 297.5697 23
Publication Date 2012
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Islamic radicalism and global jihad [electronic resource] / Devin R. Springer, James L. Regens, David N. Edger.

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by Springer, Devin R.
Call Number 363.325 22
Publication Date 2009
Summary An accessible overview of the philosophical foundations, strategic vision, organizational dynamics, and tactics of the modern jihadist movementspecifically Al-Qa'ida.
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Warrant for terror : fatwas of radical Islam and the duty of jihad / Shmuel Bar.

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by Bar, Shmuel.
Call Number 363.3251 22
Publication Date 2008 2006
Summary Warrant for Terror examines fatwas, which are legal opinions declaring whether a given act under Islam is obligatory, permitted, or forbidden and which serve as a major instrument by which religious leaders impel believers to engage in acts of jihad.
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Would-be warriors [electronic resource] : incidents of jihadist terrorist radicalization in the United States since September 11, 2001 / Brian Michael Jenkins.

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by Jenkins, Brian Michael.
Call Number 363.3250973 22
Publication Date 2010
Summary This paper examines the extent of jihadist radicalization in the United States, discusses who is being recruited, and assesses the domestic terrorist threat posed by the recruits. It then looks at how the recruits were identified by U.S. authorities and asks what this means for domestic counterterrorist strategy.
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Jihad Joe [electronic resource] : Americans who go to war in the name of Islam / J.M. Berger.

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by Berger, J. M. (John M.), 1967-
Call Number 363.3250973 22
Publication Date 2011
Summary Describes incidents of Americans volunteering to fight in the name of Islam, including Americans who participated in the 1979 siege of Mecca and conflicts in Lebanon, Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Somalia, and profiling Abdullah Rashid, Mohammed Loay Bayazid, Ismail Royer, Adam Gadahn, and Anwar Awlaki.
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Radical Islam in East Africa [electronic resource] / Angel Rabasa.

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by Rabasa, Angel.
Call Number 320.55709676 22
Publication Date 2009
Summary American geopolitical interests and the potential threats to those interests are both on the rise in East Africa. The author places the spread of militant Islamism and the development of radical Islamist networks in East Africa in the broader context of the social, economic, and political factors that have shaped the region?s security environment.
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Body of victim, body of warrior [electronic resource] : refugee families and the making of Kashmiri jihadists / Cabeiri deBergh Robinson.

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by Robinson, Cabeiri deBergh, author.
Call Number 363.325108991499 23
Publication Date 2013
Summary "This book provides a fascinating look at the creation of contemporary Muslim jihadists. Basing the book on her long-term fieldwork in the disputed borderlands between Pakistan and India, Cabeiri deBergh Robinson tells the stories of people whose lives and families have been shaped by a long history of political conflict. Interweaving historical and ethnographic evidence, Robinson explains how refuge-seeking has become a socially and politically debased practice in the Kashmir region and why this devaluation has turned refugee men into potential militants. She reveals the fraught social processes by which individuals and families produce and maintain a modern jihad, and she shows how Muslim refugees have forged an Islamic notion of rights--a hybrid of global political ideals that adopts the language of human rights and humanitarianism as a means to rethink refugees' positions in transnational communities. Jihad is no longer seen as a collective fight for the sovereignty of the Islamic polity, but instead as a personal struggle to establish the security of Muslim bodies against political violence, torture, and rape. Robinson describes how this new understanding has contributed to the popularization of jihad in the Kashmir region, decentered religious institutions as regulators of jihad in practice, and turned the families of refugee youths into the ultimate mediators of entrance into militant organizations. This provocative book challenges the idea that extremism in modern Muslim societies is the natural by-product of a clash of civilizations, of a universal Islamist ideology, or of fundamentalist conversion"--Provided by publisher.
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