The Caravan : Abdallah Azzam and the rise of global jihad / Thomas Hegghammer.
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: xx, 695 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0521759145
- 9780521759144
- 0521765951
- 9780521765954
- ʻAzzām, ʻAbd Allāh
- Jihad -- History -- 20th century
- Palestinian Arabs -- Biography
- Qaida (Organization)
- Muslim scholars -- Jordan -- Biography
- Revolutionaries -- Jordan -- Biography
- Afghanistan -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1979-1989
- Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan (Afghanistan : 1979-1989)
- 1979-1989
- DS126.6. A97 H44 2020
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-681) and index.
Abdallah Azzam, the Palestinian cleric who led the mobilization of Arab fighters to Afghanistan in the 1980s, played a crucial role in the internationalization of the jihadi movement. Killed in mysterious circumstances in 1989 in Peshawar, Pakistan, he remains one of the most influential jihadi ideologies of all time. Here, in the first in-depth biography of Azzam, Thomas Hegghammer explains how Azzam came to play this role and why jihadism went global at this particular time. It traces Azzam's extraordinary life journey from a West Bank village to the battlefields of Afghanistan, telling the story of a man who knew all the leading Islamists of his time and frequented presidents, CIA agents, and Cat Stevens the pop star. It is, however, also a story of displacement, exclusion, and repression that suggests that jihadism went global for fundamentally local reasons.
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