RT Book
T1 Horn, Sahel and rift: fault-lines of the African jihad
A1 Hansen, Stig Jarle 1971-
LA English
PP London
PB Hurst & Company
YR 2019
ED First published
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/166633670X
AB The 1998 attacks against US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam attest to al-Qaeda’s durable presence in Africa, yet Islamist-inspired radical organisations in the continent have gained much attention of late, the result of their campaigns of insurgent and terrorist violence directed against the state in Algeria, Somalia, Nigeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, Djibouti and Kenya. These groups include Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Harakat Al Shabaab, Boko Haram, the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, and Ansar Dine. This book explains why the Idea of Jihad is alive and well in sub-Saharan Africa, even after more than thirty years of Western and global efforts  to curtail it, and how most important organisations are formed by the interaction between the often under-estimated local and global dynamics. Stig Jarle Hansen has been researching African radical violent Islamism for more than fifteen years and is well placed to explain how and why such groups emerged, whether they manifest any specific traits compared with other violent Islamists, and what is likely to be their impact beyond the African continent. He also discusses the response of African and Western governments to this phenomenon.
NO Literaturverzeichnis Seite 265-299, Register
CN HV6433
SN 9781849044141
K1 Jihad
K1 Dschihadismus
K1 Militanz
K1 Islam
K1 Djihad
K1 Gewalt
K1 Religion
K1 Terrorismus
K1 Terrorist
K1 Typologie
K1 Bekämpfung
K1 Africa : History : 1960-
K1 Afrika
K1 Somalihalbinsel : Islam : Fundamentalismus : Terrorismus