Category: Jihadology

NOTE: As with 2010 and 2011, over the next few days Jihadology will be posting lists of books, think tank reports, academic journal articles, and forthcoming books that have been published during 2011 and plan to be published in 2012. 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 author. 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.
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Aaron W. Hughes — Theorizing Islam: Disciplinary Deconstruction and Reconstruction
Daniel Lav – Radical Islam and the Revival of Medieval Theology
Gregory Johnsen — The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America’s War in Arabia
Hussein Abdul-Raof – Theological Approaches to Qur’anic Exegesis: A Practical Comparative-Contrastive Analysis
Jeevan Deol – Contextualizing​ Jihadi Thought
Joas Wagemakers – A Quietist Jihadi: The Ideology and Influence of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi
Laurent Bonnefoy – Salafism in Yemen: Transnationalis​m and Religious Identity
Muhammad Qasim Zaman — Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age: Religious Authority and Internal Criticism
Ovamir Anjum – Politics, Law and Reason in Islamic Thought: The Taymiyyan Moment
Richard Gauvain — Salafi Ritual Purity: In the Presence of God
Sadakat Kadri — Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Shari’a Law from the Deserts of Ancient Arabia to the Streets of the Modern Muslim World
Stig Jarle Hansen — Al-Shabaab in Somalia: The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group, 2005-2012
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought
Umar F. Abd-allah Wymann-landgraf — Malik and Medina: Islamic Reasoning in the Formative Period
Vahid Brown and Don Rassler – Fountainhead of Jihad: The Haqqani Nexus, 1973-2010

Hello all. For the first time since the summer of 2011 this site will be going on a hiatus. Jihadology will return with new jihādī primary source materials in 2013. Similar to previous years, I have scheduled a series of posts related to books, academic journal articles, think tank/NGO/policy/governmental reports and articles of the year as well as books I’m looking forward to coming out in 2013. These scheduled posts will be running Monday through Friday over the next two weeks. For previous end of the year series see 2011 and 2010. Hope everyone has an enjoyable holiday and new year.

This may interest some people:
Top Posts
Usāmah Bin Lāden is Dead: Forum Reactions
al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula’s al-Malāḥim Media’s Inspire Magazine Issue #5
Statement from al-Qā’idah: “You Lived Benevolent and Died a Martyr: Statement on the Death of Usāmah Bin Lāden”
al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula’s al-Malāḥim Media’s Inspire Magazine Issue #4
al-Emarah presents a video message from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: “Unity and Uprising”
Video from the Teḥrīk-ī-Ṭālibān Pākistān: “Killing of Colonel Imām” [Graphic]
Statement from the Islamic Emirate Of Afghanistan Regarding The Anniversary Of The 9/11 Event
As-Saḥāb Media Production releases the second edition of Dr. Ayman aẓ-Ẓawāhirī’s “Knights Under the Prophet’s Banner”
Jihadology presents Books of 2010
al-Fajr Media releases issue one of a new women’s magazine: “al-Shāmikhah”
Most Video Plays
Anṣār al-Sharī’ah in Yemen — “Eye on the Event #1”
al-Ma’sadat Media Foundation — “The Silenced Truth”
Jund al-Khilāfah — “Overthrow the Tyrant”
al-Emarah presents a video message from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: “Unity and Uprising”
Omar Hammami [Abū Manṣūr al-Amrīkī] on Usāmah Bin Lāden’s Martyrdom
Video from the Teḥrīk-ī-Ṭālibān Pākistān: “Killing of Colonel Imām” [Graphic]
at-Taḥadī al-Islāmīyyah Forum presents a video nashīd from Abū Muṣ’ab al-Gharīb
Usāmah Bin Lāden — “To the Muslim Ummah”
Video of Ilyas Kashmiri dead body released
Jundullah Studios presents a video message from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan: “What’s Happening in the Tribal Areas Part 5”

If anyone is aware of any other great books coming out in 2012 related to Islamic Studies or Global Jihadism let me know in the comments or send me an email. For previous posts in this series see:

• 2010 End of the Year Series
• The Books of 2011
• Academic Journal Articles of 2011, Part I
• Academic Journal Articles of 2011, Part II
• Academic Journal Articles of 2011, Part III
• Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov Reports and Articles, Part I
• Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov Reports and Articles, Part II

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Daniel Lav — Radical Islam and the Revival of Medieval Theology
Hussein Abdul-Raof — Theological Approaches to Qur’anic Exegesis: A Practical Comparative-Contrastive Analysis
Jeevan Deol — Contextualizing​ Jihadi Thought
Joas Wagemakers — A Quietist Jihadi: The Ideology and Influence of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi
Laurent Bonnefoy — Salafism in Yemen: Transnationalis​m and Religious Identity
Marc Lynch — The Arab Uprising: The Wave of Protest that Toppled the Status Quo and the Struggle for a New Middle East
Ovamir Anjum — Politics, Law and Reason in Islamic Thought: The Taymiyyan Moment
Peter Bergen — Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden–from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Raffaello Pantucci — “We Love Death as You Love Life”: Britain’s Suburban Mujahedeen
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought
Vahid Brown and Don Rassler — Fountainhead of Jihad: The Haqqani Nexus, 1973-2010

For previous posts in this series see:

• 2010 End of the Year Series
• The Books of 2011
• Academic Journal Articles of 2011, Part I
• Academic Journal Articles of 2011, Part II
• Academic Journal Articles of 2011, Part III
• Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov Reports and Articles, Part I

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Jonathan A.C. Brown — Salafis and Sufis in Egypt
Kate Clark — The Layha- Calling the Taleban to Account
Minerva Nasser-Eddine, Bridget Garnham, Katerina Agostino and Gilbert Caluya — Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Literature Review
Modibo Goït — West Africa’s Growing Terrorist Threat-   Confronting AQIM’s Sahelian Strategy
Naghmeh Sohrabi — The Power Struggle in Iran- A Centrist Comeback?
Paul Cruickshank — The Militant Pipeline- Between the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border Region and the West, Second Edition
Radical Islam in Gaza
Sayeed Rahman — A Note on Usama Bin Ladin’s 1998 Declaration of War/ al-Kisa’i vs. al-Kasani
Stephen Tankel — Lashkar-e-Taiba- Past Operations and Future Prospects
Ten Years On-  Saudi Arabia’s Textbooks Still Promote Religious Violence
The Islamization of Pakistan,  1979-2009
Vahid Brown — Al-Qa’ida Revisions: The Five Letters of Sayf al-‘Adl
Yezid Sayigh — “We Serve the People”- Hamas Policing in Gaza
Youssef Aboul-Enein — Amr ibn al-A’as, a Realistic Examination of an Early Islamic Military Strategic Planner

For previous posts in this series see:

• 2010 End of the Year Series
• The Books of 2011
• Academic Journal Articles of 2011, Part I
• Academic Journal Articles of 2011, Part II
• Academic Journal Articles of 2011, Part III

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A Ticking Time Bomb- CT Lessons From the U.S. Government’s Failure to Prevent the Fort Hood Attack
Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn — A Knock on the Door- 22 Months of ISAF Press Releases
Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn — Separating the Taliban from al-Qaeda- The Core of Success in Afghanistan
Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens — As American as Apple Pie- How Anwar al-Awlaki Became the Face of Western Jihad
Brian Fishman — Redefining the Islamic State- The Fall and Rise of Al-Qaeda in Iraq
Brian Fishman and Andrew Lebovich — Countering Domestic Radicalization Lessons for Intelligence Collection and Community Outreach
Brian Michael Jenkins — Stray Dogs and Virtual Armies Radicalization and Recruitment  to Jihadist Terrorism in the  United States Since 9/11
Charles P. Blair — Anatomizing Non-State Threats to Pakistan’s Nuclear Infrastructure- The Pakistani Neo-Taliban
Dario Cristiani and Riccardo Fabiani — Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)- Implications for Algeria’s Regional and International Relations
Don Rassler and Vahid Brown — The Haqqani Nexus and the Evolution of al-Qa’ida
Dirk Baehr — The Somali Shabaab Militias and Their Jihadist Networks in the West
Gabriel Koehler-Derrick — A False Foundation?  AQAP, Tribes and Ungoverned Spaces in Yemen
Hannah Armstrong — Analyzing AQIM Jihad Recruitment Propaganda
Helmi Noman — In the Name of God- Faith Based Internet Censorship in Majority Muslim Countries
Indonesian Jihadism- Small Groups, Big Plans
Jacques Roussellie — Terrorism in North Africa  and the Sahel- Al-Qa‘ida’s  Franchise or Freelance?

For previous posts in this series see:

• 2010 End of the Year Series
• The Books of 2011
• Academic Journal Articles of 2011, Part I
• Academic Journal Articles of 2011, Part II

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Mun’im Sirry — Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qāsimī and the Salafi Approach to Sufism
Norshahril Saat — Islamising Malayness- Ulama discourse and authority in contemporary Malaysia
Omar Ashour — Post-Jihadism- Libya and the Global Transformations of Armed Islamist Movements
Paul Lawrence Rose — Muhammad, The Jews and the Constitution of Medina- Retrieving the historical Kernel
Peter Neumann, Ryan Evans, and Raffaello Pantucci — Locating Al Qaeda’s Center of Gravity- The Role of Middle Managers
Petter Nesser — Ideologies of Jihad in Europe
Recep Dogan — Is Honor Killing a “Muslim Phenomenon”? Textual Interpretations and Cultural Representations
Risa A. Brooks — Muslim “Homegrown” Terrorism in the United States- How Serious Is the Threat?
Romain Caillet — A French Jihadi in Crisis- “Role Exit” and Repression
Sam Mullins — Islamist Terrorism and Australia- An Empirical Examination of the “Home-Grown” Threat
Simon Cottee and Keith Hayward — Terrorist (E)motives- The Existential Attractions of Terrorism
Sobhi Rayan — Ibn Taymiyya’s Criticism of the Syllogism
Stéphane Lacroix — Is Saudi Arabia Immune?
Tim Winter — America as a Jihad State- Middle Eastern Perceptions of Modern American Theopolitics
Thomas Hegghammer — The Rise of Muslim  Foreign Fighters- Islam and the Globalization of Jihad
Yahya Michot — Ibn Taymiyyah’s “New Mardin Fatwa”. Is Genetically Modified Islam (GMI) Carcinogenic?
Yasin Dutton — Orality, Literacy and the ‘Seven Aḥruf’ Ḥadīth
Yunus Dumbe and Abdulkader Tayob — Salafis in Cape Town in Search of Purity, Certainty and Social Impact

For previous posts in this series see:

• 2010 End of the Year Series
• The Books of 2011
• Academic Journal Articles of 2011, Part I

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Joas Wagemakers — Al-Qa’ida’s Editor- Abu Jandal al-Azdi’s Online Jihadi Activism
Joas Wagemakers — Protecting Jihad The Sharia Council of the Minbar al-Tawhid wa-l-Jihad
Joas Wagemakers — Reclaiming Scholarly Authority- Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi’s Critique of Jihadi Practices
Jonathan A.C. Brown — Even If It’s Not True It’s True- Using Unreliable Ḥadīths in Sunni Islam
Jonathan A.C. Brown — Tension Between Minimalism and Comprehensiveness in the Shariah
Jonathan A.C. Brown — The Canonization of Ibn Mâjah- Authenticity vs. Utility in the Formation of the Sunni Ḥadîth Canon
Jonathan Kennedy and Gabriel Weimann — The Strength of Weak Ties
Joshua Teitelbaum — The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, 1945-1958- Founding, Social Origins, Ideology
Lucas Winter — The Abdullah Azzam Brigades
Madawi Al-Rasheed — Sectarianism as Counter-Revolution- Saudi Responses to the Arab Spring
Manuel R. Torres Soriano — The Evolution of the Discourse of Al- Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb- Themes, Countries and Individuals
Michael Kenney — Hotbed of Radicalization or Something Else?- An Ethnographic Exploration of a Muslim Neighborhood in Ceuta
Michael King, Haula Noor, and Donald M. Taylor — Normative Support for Terrorosm- The Attitudes and Beliefs of Immediate Relatives of Jema’ah Islamiyah Members
Michael Page, Lara Challita, and Alistair Harris — Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula- Framing Narratives and Prescriptions
M.J. Crawford — The Daʿwa of Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb before the Al Saʿūd
Muhammad al-Atawneh — Wahhābī Legal Theory as Reflected in  Modern Official Saudi Fatwās- Ijtihād, Taqlīd, Sources, and Methodology
Muhammad al-Atawneh — Wahhabi Self-Examinaion Post-9/11- Rethinking the ‘Other’, ‘Otherness’ and Tolerance

For the books of 2011, click here. And for the entire 2010 series, click here.
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Abdullah Lux — Yemen’s last Zaydī Imām- the shabab al-mu’min, the Malazim, and ‘Hizb allah’ in the thought of Ḥusayn Badr al‐Dīn al‐Ḥūthī
Anne Alexander — Brothers-in-arms? The Egyptian military, the Ikhwan and the revolutions of 1952 and 2011
Anne Stenersen — Al Qaeda’s Foot Soldiers- A Study of the Biographies of Foreign Fighters Killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan Between 2002 and 2006
Arabinda Acharya and Sonal Marwah — Nizam, la Tanzim (System, not Organization)- Do Organizations Matter in Terrorism Today? A Study of the November 2008 Mumbai Attacks
Arthur Saniotis — Muslims and ecology- fostering Islamic environmental ethics
Brian Fishman — Al-Qaeda and the Rise of  China- Jihadi Geopolitics in a Post-Hegemonic World
Bruce B. Lawrence — The Late Shaikh Osama bin Laden- A Religious Profile of al-Qaeda’s Deceased Poster Child
Christopher Melchert — Ahmad Ibn Hanbal’s Book of Renunciation
Degang Sun — Six Decades of Chinese Middle East Studies- A Review
Diego R. Sarrio — Spiritual anti-elitism- Ibn Taymiyya’s doctrine of sainthood (walāya)
Emil Souleimanov — The Caucasus Emirate- Genealogy of an Islamist Insurgency
Felicitas Opwis — Shifting Legal Authority from the Ruler to the
Ulama¯ #- Rationalizing the Punishment for Drinking Wine During the Saljuq Period
Gabriel Weimann — Cyber-Fatwas and Terrorism
Géraldine Mossière — Modesty and style in Islamic attire- Refashioning Muslim garments in a Western context
Harvey Stark — Religious Citizens After September 11th- The Impact of politics on the Jurisprudence Concerning Muslim American Military Service
Iqbal Akhtar — Race and Religion in the Political Problematization of the American Muslim
Jamie Bartlett and Carl Miller — The Edge of Violence- Towards Telling the Difference Between Violent and Non-Violent Radicalization
Jarret M. Brachman and Alix N. Levine — You Too Can Be Awlaki!