RT Book
T1 The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the rise of global jihad
A1 Hegghammer, Thomas 1977-
LA English
PP Cambridge New York Melbourne
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2020
ED First published
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1691134317
AB 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.
NO Hier auch später erschienene unveränderte Nachdrucke
CN 956.94052092
SN 9780521759144
SN 9780521765954
K1 Biografie
K1 Azzam, Abdullah : 1941-1989 : Dschihadismus : Geschichte