By Devin R. Springer
Jihadist ideology conjures up a various and decentralized number of radical teams to struggle alleged enemies of Islam and to aim to revive - a holy caliphate to unite Muslim peoples around the heart East, Africa, and Asia. "Islamic Radicalism and worldwide Jihad" presents distinctive insights into the philosophical foundations, strategic imaginative and prescient, organizational dynamics, and strategies of the trendy jihadist flow - with particular recognition to its fundamental motive force, Al-Qa'ida.Springer, Regens, and Edger draw seriously on Arabic language assets seldom visible within the West to provide an explanation for what jihadists wish and the way radical thinkers have distorted the lessons of Islam to persuade fans to pursue terrorism as a spiritual accountability. With subtle and systematic research, the authors lead their readers on a desirable highbrow trip throughout the differing principles, pursuits, and vulnerabilities of the jihadist circulation because it has advanced over the years. The authors additionally impart knowledge from their very own specialist event with terrorism, counterinsurgency, and intelligence to supply students, scholars, counterterrorism execs, and basic readers with this available review of key radical Islamic thinkers and modern jihadists.
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As such, his writings offer the jihadist movement another respected source to call out those Muslims who do not fight and to perhaps even bring violence against them as kuffar, or unbelievers. Sayyid Qutb Born in 1906 in Musha, Egypt, Sayyid Qutb became the leading Islamic thinker for the Muslim Brotherhood group, and his texts are still studied by current followers of jihadist movements around the world. Although Qutb was an author and not a faqih (doctor of Islamic law), virtually every jihadist group in the last forty years has used his philosophy—or at least parts of it—to propagate and protect Islam by violent means, whether by attacking Western interests or by fueling insurgency in the Muslim world.
Intellectual Fathers Having placed the origins of the modern global jihad in historical perspective, we now turn to the writings that inspired the Islamists. Examining the ideas underlying the rhetoric of the jihad is important in order to understand how this disheartened community has organized itself and adopted a radical interpretation of its religious beliefs to legitimize the systematic use of violence against a variety of targets. 23 The earlier figures are religious scholars whose works were written prior to 1900.
Suddenly, a group of believers were able to take the reins of their country, oust the secularized government, and build an Islamic state with the clerical class as the leadership. Although the new Iranian regime was Shi’ite, this demonstrated to the Sunni jihadists that a religiously based political leadership could gain power. The events in Iran simultaneously made the establishment of a Sunni-based Islamic power that would counter Shi’ite influence all the more urgent. Algeria’s Downward Spiral Since 1991, Algeria has been plagued with jihadist-related violence of varying intensity.