Jihadology presents Forthcoming Books of 2013

Jihadology presents Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov Reports and Articles of 2012, Part V

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Sanaa Karim — Party Politics for Morocco’s Salafis?
Saudi Arabia’s Curriculum of Intolerance
Scott Helfstein — Edges of Radicalization- Ideas, Individuals and Networks in Violent Extremism
Shiraz Maher & Peter R Neumann — Al-Qaeda at the Crossroads- How the terror group is responding to the loss of its leaders & the Arab Spring
Sir David Omand, Jamie Bartlett, and Carl Miller — “A balance between security and privacy online must be struck…” #INTELLIGENCE
Stéphane Lacroix — Osama Bin Laden And The Saudi Muslim Brotherhood
Stéphane Lacroix — Sheikhs and Politicians- Inside the New Egyptian Salafism
Stephen J. Blank — Russia’s Homegrown Insurgency- Jihad in the North Caucasus
Steven Brooke — Bin Laden’s Commitment to the Covenant
The New Salafi Politics
Tyler Evans and Esin Efe — Who’s Who in Turkey’s Justice and Development Party?
Usama Hasan — No Compulsion in Religion- An Islamic Case Against Blasphemy Laws
William McCants — A New Salafi Politics
William McCants — Al Qaeda Is Doing Nation-Building. Should We Worry
William McCants — The Lesser of Two Evils- The Salafi Turn to Party Politics in Egypt
William McCants — The Sources of Salafi Conduct
Wolfram Lacher — Organized Crime and Conflict in the Sahel-Sahara Region
Zachary Chesser- A Case Study in Online Islamist  Radicalization and Its Meaning for the  Threat of Homegrown Terrorism

Jihadology presents Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov Reports and Articles of 2012, Part IV

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Jonathan Schanzer and Steven Miller — Facebook Fatwa- Saudi Clerics, Wahhabi Islam and Social Media Julie Chernov Hwang — Terrorism in Perspective- An Assessment of “Jihad Project” Trends in Indonesia Kenyan Somali Islamist Radicalisation Khalil al-Anani — The Advent of “informal” Islamists Leah Farrall — Forward focus assessing al-Qaeda’s in-theater capabilities Letters from Abbottabad- Bin Ladin Sidelined? Linus Gustafsson — The Swedish Connection Exploring the Social Network of Violent and Violence-Promoting Islamist Extremism in Sweden and its Connections to the Global Jihad Lorenzo Vidino and James Brandon — Countering Radicalization in Europe Lucas Winter — Yemen’s Huthi Movement in the Wake of the Arab Spring Mary Fitzgerald — Introducing the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Salem Ould Mohamed — Purist Salafism in the Sahel and Its Position on the Jihadist Map Monica Marks — Ennahda’s Rule of Engagement Nelly Lahoud — Beware of Imitators- al-Qa`ida through the lens of its Confidential Secretary Nelly Lahoud — The Merger of Al-Shabab and Qa`idat al-Jihad
Nico Pruha — Fatwa calling for the death of the director, producer, and actors involved in making the film “Innocence of Muslims” Olivier Walther and Dimitris Christopoulos — A social network analysis of Islamic terrorism and the Malian rebellion Omar Ashour — Jihadists and Post-Jihadists in the Sinai Omar Ashour — Libyan Islamists Unpacked- Rise, Transformation, and Future Omar Ashour — Libya’s Muslim Brotherhood Faces the Future Peter Mandaville — The Unexceptional Islamists Peter Neumann — Countering Online Radicalization in America Rich Nielsen — Jihadi Radicalization of Muslim Clerics

Jihadology presents Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov Reports and Articles of 2012, Part III

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Eric Trager, Katie Kiraly, Cooper Klose, and Eliot Calhoun — Who’s Who in Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood
Geneive Abdo — Lebanon’s Salafi Scare
Gregory D. Johnsen — A Profile of AQAP’s Upper Echelon
Gretchen Peters — Haqqani Network Financing-The Evolution of an Industry
Hannah Armstrong — Re-Islamization Fractures Nigerien Women’s Initiatives (Private Newsletter)
How Indonesian Extremists Regroup
Inayah Rohmaniyah and Mark Woodward — Wahhabi Perspectives on Pluralism and Gender- A Saudi – Indonesian Contrast
Jacob Zenn — Northern Nigeria’s Boko Haram- The Prize in al-Qaeda’s Africa Strategy
Jamal Al Sharif — Salafis in Sudan- Between Non-Interference and Confrontation
Jarret Brachman — A Unifying Force Lost
Jeffry R. Halverson, R. Bennett Furlow, and Steven R. Corman — How Islamist Extremists Quote the Qur’an
Jihadism on the web, a breeding ground for jihad in the modern age
Joas Wagemakers — Against Palestinian Reconciliation
Joas Wagemakers — Al-Maqdisi and the Jordanian Jihadi-Salafi Movement
Joas Wagemakers — Al-Qaida Advises the Arab Spring: Abu Basir’s Scrapbook
Joas Wagemakers — Al-Qaida Advises the Arab Spring: Egypt
Joas Wagemakers — Al-Qaida advises the Arab Spring: Libya
Joas Wagemakers — Al-Qaida Advises the Arab Spring: Yemen
Joas Wagemakers — Fatwa on the Permissibility of Killing an Ambassador
Joas Wagemakers — What’s in a Name? A Jihadi Labels Himself

Jihadology presents Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov Reports and Articles of 2012, Part II

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Alexis Arieff — Algeria and the Crisis in Mali
Andrew Lebovich — Northern Mali- the Politics of Ethnicity and Locality
Andrew Lebovich — The Black Flag Flies in Mali
Andrew Lebovich — Trying to Understand MUJWA
Andrew Lebovich — What to Make of Foreign Fighters in Mali
Andrew McGregor — Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood: Alternative Visions of an Islamist Egypt
Andrew Walker — What Is Boko Haram?
Arab Uprisings: New Opportunities for Political Science
Barah Mikaïl — Religion and Politics in Arab Transitions
Brian Fishman — The Evidence of Jihadist Activity in Syria
Camille Tawil — The Changing Face of the Jihadist Movement in Libya
Christian Bleuer — Instability in Tajikistan? The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and the Afghanistan Factor
Christopher Anzalone — Kenya’s Muslim Youth Center and Al-Shabab’s East African Recruitment
Christopher Anzalone — New kid on the block: An al-Qaeda leader ascends
Christopher Anzalone — Revisiting Shaykh Atiyyatullah’s Works on Takfir and Mass Violence
Christopher Anzalone — The End of a Romance? The Rise and Fall of an American Jihadi: Omar Hammami’s Relationship with Somalia’s Al-Shabab
Christopher Anzalone — The Evolution of an American Jihadi: The Case of Omar Hammami
Christopher Anzalone — The Formalizing of an Affiliation: Somalia’s Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahideen & Al-Qa’ida Central
Clint Watts and Andrew Lebovich — Hammami’s Plight Amidst al-Shabaab and al-Qaeda’s Game of Thrones
Conflict in Yemen: Abyan’s Darkest Hour
Derek Jones — Understanding the Form, Function, and Logic of Clandestine Insurgent and Terrorist Networks- The First Step in Effective Counternetwork Operations
Elizabeth O’Bagy — Jihad in Syria

Jihadology presents Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov Reports and Articles of 2012, Part I

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Aaron Y. Zelin — Dodging the drones: How militants have responded to the covert US campaign Aaron Y. Zelin — Foreign Fighters Trickle into the Syrian Rebellion Aaron Y. Zelin — Free Radical Aaron Y. Zelin — Jabhat al-Nusrah and Jihad in Syria Aaron Y. Zelin — Jihadi Soft Power in Tunisia: Ansar al-Shari’ah’s Convoy Provides Aid to the Town of Haydrah in West Central Tunisia Aaron Y. Zelin — Jihadism’s Foothold in Libya Aaron Y. Zelin — Know Your Ansar al-Sharia Aaron Y. Zelin — Maqdisi’s disciples in Libya and Tunisia Aaron Y. Zelin — Missionary at Home, Jihadist Abroad: A Profile of Tunisia’s Abu Ayyad the Amir of Ansar al-Shari‘ah Aaron Y. Zelin — Purifying Islam and Combating the West: Post Mortem Analysis of the Indelible Impact of al-Qaeda’s Abu Yahya al-Libi Aaron Y. Zelin — Syria’s New Jihadis Aaron Y. Zelin — Terror from Sinai: Global Jihadist Groups on Israel’s Doorstep Aaron Y. Zelin — The Call to Islam: Hitin Urdu Magazine Interviews al-Qa’ida’s Head of Da’wah Khalid bin ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Husaynan Aaron Y. Zelin — The Evolution of the Jihadi Role in the Syrian Rebellion Aaron Y. Zelin — Who is Jabhat al-Islah? Aaron Y. Zelin and Andrew Lebovich — Assessing Al-Qa`ida’s Presence in the New Libya
Aaron Y. Zelin and Daveed Gartenstein-Ross — How the Arab Spring’s Prisoner Releases Have Helped the Jihadi Cause Aaron Y. Zelin and Erik Churchill — A Balancing Act: Ennahda’s Struggle with Salafis Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens — Al-Shabab’s Western Recruitment Strategy Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, Shiraz Maher, and James Sheehan — Lights, Camera, Jihad- Al-Shabaab’s Western Media Strategy

Jihadology presents Academic Journal Articles of 2012, Part IV

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Robert Chesney  — Beyond the Battlefield, Beyond Al Qaeda- The Destabilizing Legal Architecture of Counterterrorism
Robert W. Hefner — Shari’a Politics and Indonesian Democracy
S. Paul Kapur and Sumit Ganguly — The Jihad Paradox- Pakistan and Islamist Militancy in South Asia
Samuel J. Rascoff — Establishing Official Islam? The Law and Strategy of Counter-Radicalization
Scott Matthew Kleinmann — Radicalization of Homegrown Sunni Militants in the United States- Comparing Converts and Non-Converts
Scott S. Reese — Salafi Transformations- Aden and the Changing Voices of Religious Reform in the Interwar Indian Ocean
Shandon Harris-Hogan — Anatomy of a terrorist cell- a study of the network uncovered in Sydney in 2005
Shandon Harris-Hogan — Australian Neo- Jihadist Terrorism- Mapping the Network and Cell Analysis Using Wiretap Evidence
Shanna A. Kirschner — Teaching the Middle East- Pedagogy in a Charged Classroom
Shlomo Shpiro — Israeli Intelligence and al-Qaeda
Sobhi Rayan — “Diversity” in Arab Society in Israel: The Islamic Movement as an Example
Stefano Bonino — Policing Strategies against Islamic Terrorism in the UK after 9/11- The Socio-Political Realities for British Muslims
Steve Kettell — Has Political Science Ignored Religion?
Steve L. Monroe — Salafis in parliament- Democratic Attitudes and party politics in the gulf
Tauseef Ahmad Parray — The Legal Methodology of “Fiqh al-Aqalliyyat” and its Critics: An Analytical Study
Thomas H. Johnson and Matthew C. DuPee — Analysing the new Taliban Code of Conduct (Layeha)- an assessment of changing perspectives and strategies of the Afghan Taliban
Thomas J. Barfield — Shari’a in Afghanistan
Tilde Rosmer — Resisting ‘Israelization’- The Islamic Movement in Israel and the Realization of Islamization, Palestinization and Arabization
Uriya Shavit — The Wasati and Salafi Approaches to the Religious Law of Muslim Minorities
Vanda Felbab-Brown and James J.F. Forest — Political Violence and the Illicit Economies of West Africa
Vernie Liebl — Al Qaida on the US invasion of Afghanistan in their own words

Jihadology presents Academic Journal Articles of 2012, Part III

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Leor Halevi — The Consumer Jihad- Boycott Fatwas and Nonviolent Resistence on the World Wide Web
Lisa Blaydes and Drew A. Linzer — Elite Competition, Religiosity, and Anti-Americanism in the Islamic World
Luke Treadwell — Qur’anic Inscriptions on the Coins of the ahl al-bayt from the Second to Fourth Century AH
M.A. Muqtedar Khan — American Exceptionalism and American Muslims
M.A.S. Abdel Haleem — The jizya Verse (Q. 9:29): Tax Enforcement on Non-Muslims in the First Muslim State
Manuel R. Torres Soriano — Between the Pen and the Sword- The Global Islamic Media Front in the West
Manuel R. Torres Soriano — The Vulnerabilities of Online Terrorism
Maria do Céu Pinto — An evaluation of the jihadist threat in Portugal
Matenia Sirseloudi — The Meaning of Religion and Identity for the Violent Radicalisation of the Turkish Diaspora in Germany
Mathieu Duchatel — The Terrorist Risk and China’s Policy toward Pakistan- strategic reassurance and the ‘United Front’
Matt Buehler — Safety-Valve Elections and the Arab Spring: The Weakening (and Resurgence) of Morocco’s Islamist Opposition Party
Meir Hatina — Redeeming Sunni Islam- Al-Qa‘ida’s Polemic against the Muslim Brethren
Michael Vlahos — Counterterrorism and the New American Exceptionalism
Mieke van Dijk and Edien Bartels — “European Islam” in Practice—in the Bosnian City of Sarajevo
Mohammad Salama and Rachel Friedman — Locating the Secular in Sayyid Qutb
Mohsen Kadivar — From Traditional Islam to Islam as an End in Itself
Mona Abdel-Fadil — Islam offline—living ‘The message’ behind the screens
Mona Kanwal Sheikh — Sacred Pillars of Violence- Findings from a Study of the Pakistani Taliban
Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Zulkifli Mohamed — Inside an Indonesian Online Library for Radical Materials
Muhammad Qasim Zaman — Shari’a and the State in Pakistan
Nathan J. Brown — Debating the Islamic Shari’a in 21st Century Egypt
Noman Hanif — Hizb ut Tahrir- Islam’s Ideological Vanguard
Patrick B. Johnston — Does Decapitation Work?- Assessing the Effectiveness of Leadership Targeting in Counterinsurgency Campaigns
Paul D. Numrich — Emergence of the Rhetoric of a Unified Ummah among American Muslims- The Case of Metropolitan Chicago
Randy Borum — Radicalization into Violent Extremism I- A Review of Social Science Theories

Jihadology presents Academic Journal Articles of 2012, Part II

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Edward H. Kaplan — Estimating the Duration of Jihadi Terror Plots in the United States
Emmanuel Karagiannis — European Converts to Islam- Mechanisms of Radicalization
Erik Freas — Hajj Amin al-Husayni and the Haram al-Sharif- A Pan-Islamic or Palestinian Nationalist Cause?
Fabio Merone & Francesco Cavatorta — Salafist mouvance and sheikh-ism in the Tunisian democratic transition
Frank E. Vogel — Shari’a in the Politics of Saudi Arabia
Graeme Blair, C. Christine Fair, Neil Malhotra, and Jacob N. Shapiro — Poverty and Support for Militant Politics- Evidence from Pakistan
Hakan M. Yavuz — Ethical Not Shari’a Islam: Islamic Debates in Turkey
Hamidi Khemissi, Ricardo René Larémont, and Taybi Taj Eddine — Sufism, Salafism and state policy towards religion in Algeria- a survey of Algerian youth
Heather J. Sharkey — Language and Conflict- The Political History of Arabisation in Sudan and Algeria
Ismail Albayrak — Islam & Christian Muslim relations.- Reading the Bible in the light of Muslim sources- from isrāʾīliyyāt to islāmiyyāt
Jeffry R Halverson and Amy K Way — The curious case of Colleen LaRose- Social margins, new media, and online radicalization
Jenny Berglund — Islamic identity and its role in the lives of young Swedish Muslims
Jere L. Bacharach and Sherif Anwar — Early Versions of the shahada- A Tombstone from Aswan of 71 A.H., the Dome of the Rock, and Contemporary Coinage
Joas Wagemakers — The Enduring Legacy of the Second Saudi State- Quietist and Radical Wahhabi Contestations of al-Wala’ wa-l-Bara’
John Mueller and Mark G. Stewart — The Terrorism Delusion- America’s Overwrought Response to September 11
Jonas Otterbeck — Wahhabi ideology of social control versus a new publicness in Saudi Arabia
Jonathan A.C. Brown — The Rules of Matn Criticism- There Are No Rules
Joshua T. White — Beyond moderation- dynamics of political Islam in Pakistan
Jytte Klausen, Eliane Tschaen Barbieri, Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, Aaron Y. Zelin — The YouTube Jihadists: A Social Network Analysis of Al-Muhajiroun’s Propaganda Campaign
Kendrick T. Kuo — Revisiting the Salafi-jihadist Threat in Xinjiang
Khalid Mahdi — Islamism(s) and the Arab uprisings- between commanding the faithful and mobilising the protestor
Khalil al-Anani — The Power of the Jama’a- The Role of Hasan al-Banna in Constructing the Muslim Brotherhood’s Collective Identity

Jihadology presents Academic Journal Articles of 2012, Part I

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Aaron Y. Zelin — al-Farīḍa al-Ghāʾiba and al-Sadat’s Assassination, a 30 Year Retrospective
Adis Duderija — Evolution in the Concept of Sunnah during the First Four Generations of Muslims in Relation to the Development of the Concept of an Authentic Hadith as Based on Recent Western Scholarship
Alexander Knysh — Islam and Arabic as the Rhetoric of Insurgency- The Case of the Caucasus Emirate
Andreas Gorke, Harald Motzki, and Gregor Schoeler — First Century Sources for the Life of Muhammad? A Debate
Anke Iman Bouzenita — Early Contributions to the Theory of Islamic Governance- ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Awzāʿī
Anver M. Emon — On Sovereignties in Islamic Legal History
Ashraf Nabih El Sherif — Institutional and Ideological Re-construction of the Justice and Development Party (PJD)- The Question of Democratic Islamismism in Morocco
Behnam Said — Hymns (Nasheeds)- A Contribution to the Study of the Jihadist Culture
Benjamin Ducol — Uncovering the French-speaking jihadisphere- An exploratory analysis
Bruce Maddy-Weitzman — Arabization and Its Discontents- The Rise of the Amazigh Movement in North Africa
Carin Berg — Tunes of religious resistance? Understanding Hamas music in a conflict context
Charles Hirschkind — Experiments in Devotion Online- The YouTube Khutba
Chris Lundry, Steven R. Corman, R. Bennett Furlow, and Kirk W. Errickson — Cooking the Books- Strategic Inflation of Casualty Reports by Extremists in the Afghanistan Conflict
Christian Bleuer — Muslim Soldiers in Non-Muslim Militaries at War in Muslim Lands: The Soviet, American and Indian Experience
Cynthia Shawamreh — Islamic Legal Theory and the Context of Islamist Movements
Damien Janos — Qur’anic cosmography in its historical perspective- some notes on the formation of a religious worldview
Danny Orbach — Tyrannicide in Radical Islam- The Case of Sayyid Qutb and Abd al-Salam Faraj
Darryl Li — Taking the Place of Martyrs- Afghans and Arabs under the Banner of Islam
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Tara Vassefi — Perceptions of the “Arab Spring” Within the Salafi-Jihadi Movement
David H. Warren and Christine Gilmore — Rethinking neo-Salafism through an Emerging Fiqh of Citizenship- The Changing Status of Minorities in the Discourse of Yusuf al-Qaradawi and the ‘School of the Middle Way’
David Martin Jones and Michael K.R. Smith — Ideology, Networks and Political Religion- Structure and Agency in Jemaah Islamiah’s Small World