Jihadology presents Books of 2010

NOTE: Over the next few days I am going to be posting lists of books, think tank reports, academic journal articles, and key jihadist works that have been published during 2010. Below is a list of books that I have either read or am interested in reading that were published in the past year. They are in alphabetical order by title. If you have any other suggestions to the below books that deal with global jihadism or Islamic studies, please feel free to let me know in the comments section.


Global Terrorism and New Media: The Post-Al Qaeda Generation by Philip Seib and Dana M. Janbek
Ibn Taymiyya and his Times edited by Yossef Rapoport and Shahab Ahmed
Jihad in Saudi Arabia: Violence and Pan-Islamism since 1979 by Thomas Hegghammer
Mawlana Mawdudi and Political Islam: Authority and the Islamic state by Roy Jackson
Militant Islamist Ideology by Youssef H. Aboul-Enein
Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam by Fred Donner
My Life with the Taliban by Abdul Salam Zaeef and edited by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn
Radical Islam in the Former Soviet Union by Galina M. Yemelianova
Rethinking Islamic Studies: From Orientalism to Cosmopolitanism edited by Carl W. Ernst and Richard C. Martin
Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism by John Calvert
The ETIM: China’s Islamic Militants and the Global Terrorist Threat by J. Todd Reed and Diana Raschke
The Jihadis’ Path to Self-destruction by Nelly Lahoud
The Most Dangerous Place: Pakistan’s Lawless Frontier by Imtiaz Gul
Virtual Caliphate: Exposing the Islamist State on the Internet by Yaakov Lappin