| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title page -- Frontispiece -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Timelines -- List of Maps -- List of Illustrations -- List of Table and Figure -- Acknowledgments -- Maps -- Introduction -- Prologue -- 1 Palestinian -- 2 Brother -- 3 Fighter -- 4 Scholar -- 5 Vagabond -- 6 Writer -- 7 Pioneer -- 8 Diplomat -- 9 Manager -- 10 Recruiter -- 11 Ideologue -- 12 Mujahid -- 13 Resident -- 14 Enemy -- 15 Martyr -- 16 Icon -- Conclusion -- Note on Sources -- Overview of Abdallah Azzam's Works -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
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 ideologues 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-681) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 12, 2020) |
| Subject |
ʻAzzām, ʻAbd Allāh.
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ʻAzzām, ʻAbd Allāh fast |
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Qaida (Organization) fast |
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Jihad -- History -- 20th century
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Palestinian Arabs -- Biography
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Palestinian Arabs
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Jihad
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Muslim scholars
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Revolutionaries
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Afghanistan -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1979-1989 -- Biography
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Afghanistan
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Jordan
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781139049375 |
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1139049372 |
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