Year: 2013

Jihadology presents Forthcoming Books of 2014

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Annie C Higgins – Secession & Identity in Early Islam
Carool Kersten — Islam in Indonesia: The Contest for Society, Ideas and Values
Chiara Formichi and Michael Feener — Shi’ism in South East Asia: ‘Alid Piety and Sectarian Constructions
Ersel Aydinli — Violent Non-State Actors: From Anarchists to Jihadists
Firas Alkhateeb — Lost Islamic History
Gurdofarid Miskinzoda — Narratives of the Life of Muhammad: Redefining Sira Literature
Innes Bowen — Medina in Birmingham, Najaf in Brent: Inside British Islam
Jonathan Benthall and Robert Lacey — Gulf Charities and Islamic Philanthropy in the ‘Age of Terror’ and Beyond
Kamran Bokhari – Voices of Jihad: New Writings on Radical Islam
Marie Juul Petersen — For Humanity or for the Umma?: Aid and Islam in Transnational Muslim NGOs
Nile Green — Terrains of Exchange: Muslim Encounters from India and Iran to America and Japan
Petter Nesser — Islamist Terrorism in Europe
Raffaello Pantucci – ”We Love Death as You Love Life”: Britain’s Suburban Mujahedeen
Reza Pankhurst — Hizb Ut Tahrir: The Untold History of the Liberation Party

Ajnād Foundation For Media Production presents a new release from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shām: “Recitation of Sūrat al-Anfāl"

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Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shām — “Recitation of Sūrat al-Anfāl”

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Jihadology presents Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov Reports and Articles of 2013, Part X

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Raffaello Pantucci — British Fighters Joining the War in Syria
Raphaël Lefèvre — The Muslim Brotherhood Prepares for a Comeback in Syria
Samar Batrawi — The Dutch Foreign Fighter Contingent in Syria
Sanaa Karim — Morocco’s Salafis: In Search of a Comprehensive Solution
Shiraz Maher — British Foreign Fighters in Syria
Shiraz Maher and Samar Batrawi — What Jihadists Thought About Boston: ‘Allah Akbar. Let’s Move On’
Soner Cagaptay and Aaron Y. Zelin — Turkey’s jihadi dilemma
START — Violent Jihadism in Real Time: Al-Shabaab’s Use of Twitter
Stephen Tankel — Going Native: The Pakistanization of Al-Qaeda
Stephen Tankel — The militant groups next door
Stig Hansen — Somalia: Rumours Of Al-Shabaab’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
Suha Philip Ma’ayeh — Jordanian Jihadists Active in Syria
Thomas Hegghammer — Number of foreign fighters from Europe in Syria is historically unprecedented. Who should be worried?
Thomas Hegghammer — Syria’s Foreign Fighters
Thomas Hegghammer and Aaron Y. Zelin — How Syria’s Civil War Became a Holy Crusade
Thomas Pierret — Implementing ‘Sharia’ in Syria’s Liberated Provinces
Timothy D. Soper — A Message of Felicitation from the Esteemed Amir-Ul-Momineen on the Occasion of Eid: An Analysis of Taliban Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Fitr Statements from 2006 to 2012
Tufail Ahmad — The Next Decade of Jihadism in Pakistan
Vahid Brown — Abu Ghaith and al-Qa’ida’s Dissident Faction in Iran
Vish Sakthivel — Are Morocco’s Political Salafists Committed to Peace?
Vish Sakthivel — Weathering Morocco’s Syria Returnees
Will McCants — Joining the Fray: Salafi Politics After the Arab Spring
Will McCants — Office Space
Will McCants — Salafis After the Coup
Zia Ur Rehman — Pakistani Fighters Joining the War in Syria

Jihadology presents Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov Reports and Articles of 2013, Part IX

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– North Caucasus Caucus — Turkish Fighters in Syria, Online and Off Olivier Roy — Secularism and Islam: The Theological Predicament Pascale Combelles Siegel — AQIM’s Playbook in Mali Per Gudmundson — The Swedish Foreign Fighter Contingent in Syria Pieter Van Ostaeyen — Belgian Jihadis in Syria Pieter Van Ostaeyen — Dutch Foreign Fighters – Some Testimonials from the Syrian Front Pieter Van Ostaeyen — Dutch Foreign Fighters – Some Testimonials from Syrian Front #2  Pieter Van Ostaeyen — Dutch Foreign Fighters – Some Testimonials from the Syrian Front (Part III) Phillip Smyth — “Divine Victory” in Qusayr: Hizballah Promotes Their Success on the Web Phillip Smyth — Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq’s Liwa’a Kafeel Zaynab Phillip Smyth — Breaking Badr: Is Iraq’s Badr Organization Operating In Syria? Phillip Smyth — Breaking Badr, New Season: Confirmation of Badr Organization’s Involvement in Syria Phillip Smyth — From Karbala to Sayyida Zaynab: Iraqi Fighters in Syria’s Shi`a Militias
Phillip Smyth — Hizballah Cavalcade: Roundup of Iraqis Killed in Syria, Part 1 Phillip Smyth — Hizballah Cavalcade: Roundup of Iraqis Killed in Syria, Part 2 Phillip Smyth — Hizballah Cavalcade: Roundup of Iraqis Killed in Syria, Part 3 Phillip Smyth — Hizballah Cavalcade: Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada: Another Supplier of Iraqi Shia Fighters in Syria Phillip Smyth — Hizballah Cavalcade: Liwa’a Zulfiqar: Birth of A New Shia Militia in Syria?  Phillip Smyth — Hezbollah’s Fallen Soldiers Phillip Smyth — Hizballah’s Multiplying Qusayr Martyrs Phillip Smyth — Iran’s Losses In the “35th Province” (Syria), Part 1 Phillip Smyth — Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada Emerges: Updates on the New Iraqi Shia Militia Supplying Fighters to Syria Phillip Smyth — Liwa’a ‘Ammar Ibn Yasir: A New Shia Militia Operating In Aleppo, Syria  Phillip Smyth — Liwa’a al-Imam al-Hasan al-Mujtaba: A Shia Militia Fighting in Rif Dimashq/Ghouta Phillip Smyth — Qusayr Meat Grinder: Hizballah’s Dead From May 20-May 25 Phillip Smyth — Sariyya al-Tali’a al-Khurasani: A New Combat-Tested Shia Militia in Syria Phillip Smyth — The Badr Organization’s Syrian Expeditionary Force: Quwet al-Shahid Muhammed Baqir al-Sadr Phillip Smyth — The Lion of Damascus, and Afghans, and Africans! Oh My!: Fighters From Exotic Locales In Syria’s Shia Militias Phillip Smyth — The Songs of Liwa’a Abu Fadl al-Abbas: Militant Iraqi Shia Music & Syria Phillip Smyth — What is the Liwa’ Abu Fadl al-Abbas?: Assessing Syria’s Shia “International Brigade” Through Social Media Presence

Minbar al-Tawḥīd wa-l-Jihād presents a new book from Shaykh Abū 'Ubaydah al-Shinqīṭī: "A Reply to Abū Ḥafṣ al-Mūrītānī"

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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Shaykh Abū ‘Ubaydah al-Shinqīṭī — “A Reply to Abū Ḥafṣ al-Mūrītānī”
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New statement from the Sunnī Trend for the Salvation of Egypt: "Lies of the Seventh Day and Its Fabrications"

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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Sunnī Trend for the Salvation of Egypt — “Lies of the Seventh Day and Its Fabrications”
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Jihadology presents Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov Reports and Articles of 2013, Part VIII

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Mark Youngman — Backgrounder on the Mujahideen of the Caucasus and the Levant

Mark Youngman — Book Review of “Foreign Fighters: Transnational Identity in Civil Conflicts”

Mark Youngman — The North Caucasus Insurgency’s Syrian Balancing Act

Matthew Levitt — Hizb Allah Resurrected: The Party of God’s Return to Tradecraft

Matthew Levitt — Hizballah and the Qods Force in Iran’s Shadow War with the West

Matthew Levitt and Aaron Y. Zelin — Hizb Allah’s Gambit in Syria

Michael Marcusa — My Two Weeks With the Jihadists

Mr. Orange’s War Tracker — What’s in the names of terrorist groups (1): Jabhah al-Nusrah

Nathaniel Rosenblatt — ISIS’ Plan to Govern Syria – And What the US Should Do About It

Nelly Lahoud — Jihadi Discourse in the Wake of the Arab Spring

Nico Prucha — Who let the Dog out? A note on the German side of “jihadism”

Nico Prucha and Ali Fisher — 66 Important Jihadist Twitter Accounts (part 2)

Nico Prucha and Ali Fisher — Jihadi Twitter activism – Introduction

Nico Prucha and Ali Fisher — Jihadi Twitter Activism part 2: Jabhat al-Nusra on the Twittersphere

Nico Prucha and Ali Fisher — The ‘Who’s Who’ of the Most Important Jihadi Accounts on Twitter?

Nico Prucha and Ali Fisher — Tweeting for the Caliphate: Twitter as the New Frontier for Jihadist Propaganda

Noah Tucker — Uzbek Extremism in Context, Part 1: The Uzbek Jihad and the Problem of Religious Freedom 

Noah Tucker — Uzbek Extremism in Context, Part 2: The Internet, Social Media and Religious Speech

Noah Tucker — Uzbek Extremism in Context, Part 3: “Love Your President & Be Content With Bread, or Allah Will Give you a Disease!”

Noman Benotman and Jonathan Russell — A New Index to Assess the Effectiveness of Al Qaeda

Noman Benotman and Roisin Blake — Jabhat al-Nusra

al-Ma’sadat Media Foundation presents a new article from Abū Sa’d al ‘Āmilī: “Lessons Through Education On The Best Biography of the Land #15: Education Stances With the Bay’at of the Second Obstacle, Part 2"

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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Abū Sa’d al ‘Āmilī — “Lessons Through Education On The Best Biography of the Land #15- Education Stances With the Bay’at of the Second Obstacle, Part 2″
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