Category: Articles of the Week

Sunday January 29:
Countering Violent Extremism of Terror Cell Recruits – Clint Watts, Selected Wisdom: https://bit.ly/AeioAt
Monday January 30:
What’s going on with Al-Azhar? by Nathan Brown, Egypt Source: https://bit.ly/zGJV3j
Jihad in Syria and Jabhah al-Nusrah – Aaron Y. Zelin, al-Wasat: https://bit.ly/xbrCY4
Thursday February 2:
Countering the Violent Extremism of Fickled Fighters – Clint Watts, Selected Wisdom: https://bit.ly/y4lJCH
De-Radicalising Islamists: Programmes and Their Impact in Muslim Majority States – Hamed El Said, ICSR: https://bit.ly/ymjFl8
Friday February 3:
The jihad hobbyists who’ve moved on from watching al-Qaida videos – Jarret Brachman, The Guardian: https://bit.ly/xB0XXb

Monday January 23:
Rada’a, AQAP, Ansar al-Shariah, and the al-Dhahab Family – Gregory Johnsen, Waq al-waq: https://bit.ly/yQSaOA
Wednesday January 25:
The Rada’a Solution – Gregory Johnsen, Waq al-waq: https://bit.ly/xuf73L
Thursday January 26:
An Update to Hegghammer’s Preference-Based Analysis of Islamism – Aaron Y. Zelin: bit.ly/zj3viF
What’s in a Name – Gregory Johnsen, Waq al-waq: https://bit.ly/yHDMnY
The Indigenization of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan – Jacob Zenn, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/zZTe55
Friday January 27:
The AQAP – Ansar al-Shariah Link – Gregory Johnsen, Waq al-waq: https://bit.ly/y1sLYs
Experiments in Devotion Online- The YouTube Khutba – Charles Hirschkind, International Journal of Middle East Studies: https://bit.ly/y9FHVE
The Consumer Jihad- Boycott Fatwas and Nonviolent Resistence on the World Wide Web – Leor Halevi, International Journal of Middle East Studies: https://bit.ly/zhIYgp
Salafi Transformations- Aden and the Changing Voices of Religious Reform in the Interwar Indian Ocean – Scott S. Reese, International Journal of Middle East Studies: https://bit.ly/xBvF3C
The Enduring Legacy of the Second Saudi State- Quietist and Radical Wahhabi Contestations of al-Wala’ wa-l-Bara’ – Joas Wagemakers, International Journal of Middle East Studies: https://bit.ly/y52IZk

Saturday January 14:
Islamism and secularism in Tunisia – Rory McCarthy, openDemocracy: https://bit.ly/x1Ypit
Sunday January 15:
A Look Inside AQIM – Andrew Lebovich, al-Wasat: https://bit.ly/xxDNKu
Tuesday January 17:
Placing Islam in Conversation with A Secular Age – Elizabeth A. Barre, Journal of Religious Ethics: https://bit.ly/yi7SCH
Wednesday January 18:
Book Review of “Milk and Peace, Drought and War” – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa: https://bit.ly/zeUekB
Thursday January 19: 
Salafi-Jihadi Cleric Abu Basir Al-Tartusi Position on Democracy: Some Mechanisms Can Be Adopted – D. Hazan, The Middle East Media Research Institute: https://bit.ly/xBC912

Saturday January 7:
From Traditional Islam to Islam as an End in Itself – Mohsen Kadivar, Die Welt des Islams: https://bit.ly/xRToW3
A Study of Knights Under the Banner of the Prophet (2d ed) – Part 6 – Marisa Urgo, Making Sense of Jihad: https://bit.ly/yBfMQO
Monday January 9:
Al-Qaida advises the Arab Spring: Libya – Joas Wagemakers, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/wRyVaG

Saturday December 31:
Al-Qaeda’s Uighur Jihadi: A Profile of the Turkistan Islamic Party’s Abdul Shakoor Turkistani – Jacob Zenn, Militant Leadership Monitor: https://bit.ly/vcCfCs 
Sunday January 1:
Women and Gender in Islam: A Question of Cultural Relativism – Suzanne Rothman, Kulna Journal: https://bit.ly/rIsPQX
Monday January 2:
Al Qaeda 2012: Will it be resurgence or defeat? – Clint Watts, Selected Wisdom: https://bit.ly/vYvhfi
Tuesday January 3:
Egypt’s Salafi Challenge – Omar Ashour, Project Syndicate: https://bit.ly/AnnCw1
Breakthroughs in Faith – Olivier Roy, World Policy Journal: https://bit.ly/uxhmgQ
Wednesday January 4:
Egypt’s Salafi Surge: These guys make the Muslim Brotherhood look like latte liberals – Sarah A. Topol, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/zo7RsI
The Death of al Qaeda: Fawaz Gerges Edition – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Gunpowder and Lead: https://bit.ly/zWX6ZQ
Friday January 6:
Tunisia’s student Salafis – Monica Marks, The Middle East Channel: https://bit.ly/zdMv2b

Monday December 19:
A History of Hatred: The Muslim Brotherhood and Anti-Semitism – Sarah Schlesinger, The National Review: https://bit.ly/sawk1p
Tuesday December 20:
Salafis and Sufis in Egypt – Jonathan Brown, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: https://bit.ly/sBnXyH
Wednesday December 21:
December in Mogadishu – M. Mubarak, Inside the Insurgency: https://bit.ly/s3wORc
What Tarek Mehanna Isn’t – J.M. Berger, IntelWire: https://bit.ly/u6Lykz
Thursday December 22:
Revisiting the Early Al Qaeda: An Updated Account of its Formative Years – Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: https://bit.ly/u6zLVw

Monday December 12:
The TTP tango – Jeffrey Dressler, The AfPak Channel: https://bit.ly/uizzGy
Tuesday December 13:
Nigeria: Living In The Shadow Of Boko Haram – Ejiro Barrett, African Arguments: https://t.co/kkYLShE
Wednesday December 14: 
Orality, Literacy and the ‘Seven Aḥruf’ Ḥadīth – Yasin Dutton, Journal of Islamic Studies: https://t.co/KgXCqf0
Thursday December 15:
Transnational Influences on Irish Muslim Networks: From Local to Global Perspectives – Adil Hussain Khan, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: https://t.co/caG9afl
The jihad will be YouTubed – Raffaello Pantucci, The AfPak Channel: https://t.co/TsUGxje
Jund al-Khilafa Operations Expand in Kazakhstan – Jacob Zenn, Terrorism Monitor: https://t.co/8PRLYyB
The Daʿwa of Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb before the Al Saʿūd – M. J. Crawford, Journal of Arabian Studies: https://bit.ly/rqI5ZQ

Wednesday December 7:
Secularists and Islamists in the Maghreb: The Dangers of Polarization – Kal, Tunisia Live: https://bit.ly/sIpuYn
Thursday December 8:
The Caucasus Emirate: Genealogy of an Islamist Insurgency – Emil Souleimanov, Middle East Policy: https://bit.ly/rLGwKW
The Salafi Challenge to Tunisia’s Nascent Democracy – Aaron Y. Zelin, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy: https://bit.ly/tgyv2r

Sunday November 27:
Party Hopping in Algeria – Kal, TheMoorNextDoor: https://ow.ly/7GtJO
Houthi Expansion and Marginalization – Fernando Carvajal, The Yemen Peace Project: https://bit.ly/w4V9Md
Tuesday November 29:
Abū Sad al-Hargūšī and his Kitāb al-Lawāmi A Sūfī Guide Book for Preachers from 4th/10th century Nīšāpūr – Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke, Arabica: https://bit.ly/taKUIg
“Curses, Foiled Again!“ Further Research on Early Use of the Hadalahum Allāh Invocation during the Crusading Period – Niall Christie, Arabica: https://bit.ly/tRRvzg
Wednesday November 30:
Salafists are not the Tea Party, they’re Shas – Issandr El Amrani, The Arabist: https://j.mp/u7VP4B
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb: Terrorism & Counterterrorism in the Sahel – Ricardo René Larémont, African Security: https://bit.ly/tRWxtD
Jordan’s Abu Sayyaf: Key Islamist Actor in Ma’an – Murad Batal al-Shishani, Militant Leadership Monitor: https://bit.ly/vEvFzK
Thursday December 1:
American Jihadist Terrorism: Combating a Complex Threat – Jerome P. Bjelopera, Congressional Research Service: https://bit.ly/cxTogs

Saturday November 19:
Al-Qaida advises the Arab Spring: Syria – Joas Wagemakers, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/vswXNf
The Value Of Exposing Collaborators – J.M. Berger, IntelWire: https://intelwire.net/sktOlM
Monday November 21:
Rethinking the online–offline connection in the study of religion online – Heidi A. Campbell & Mia Lövheim, Information, Communication & Society: https://bit.ly/uCy8I7
Online fatwas, arbitration tribunals and the construction of Muslim identity in the UK – Vit Sisler, Information, Communication & Society: https://bit.ly/rNfAyH
Muslims On The Path Of The Salaf al-Salih: Ritual dynamics in chat rooms and discussion forums – Carmen Becker, Information, Communication & Society: https://bit.ly/rSb45F
AQIM’s Mokhtar Belmokhtar speaks out – Andrew Lebovich, al-Wasat: https://ow.ly/7B5qR
Mauritania Bibliography – Kal, TheMoorNextDoor: https://is.gd/1YgwYT
Tuesday November 22:
When the French Liberated Mecca – Ed Husain, The Arab Street: https://on.cfr.org/vpv4wR
The Flaws of Jordan’s Largest Terrorism Trial – Christoph Wilcke, Sada Journal: https://bit.ly/sfXI1u
Wednesday November 23:
The Legal Implications of the Decline of the Original al Qaeda Network – Robert Chesney, Lawfare: https://bit.ly/uj5A3q
“By the Hands of Men Who Don’t Fear Death” – Jund al-Khilafa Launches Islamist Insurgency in Kazakhstan – Jacob Zenn, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/uI2OTV
The TTP’s hybrid insurgency – Christopher Anzalone, The AfPak Channel: https://bit.ly/v18JiW
Friday November 25:
Al-Qa‘ida’s Editor: Abu Jandal al-Azdi’s Online Jihadi Activism – Joas Wagemakers, Politics, Religion & Ideology: https://bit.ly/vi3LGU