RT Book
T1 Doctor, teacher, terrorist: the life and legacy of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri
A1 Gohel, Sajjan M.
LA English
PP New York
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1851675930
AB For over half a century, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri repeatedly emerged from the shadows as a vengeful ideologue hell-bent on changing history. Dr. Sajjan M. Gohel provides the first definitive account of one of the world's most wanted terrorists. Having grown up in an illustrious Egyptian family of physicians, lawyers, clergy, and politicians, al-Zawahiri was originally destined to become a successful doctor. However, he chose to rebel against his own society which he deemed to have deviated from its religious identity. By forming his own terrorist group, al-Zawahiri dedicated his life to sedition and violent rebellion against the international order. Ayman al-Zawahiri led a life incomparable to anyone else. The Egyptian found himself in many of the places where history was being determined. His journey takes us across Egypt, Sudan, Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as the United States and Russia. Through his close bond with Osama bin Laden, al-Zawahiri played a critical role in the evolution of al-Qaeda's ideology, recruitment, tactics, and strategy. With the deft touch of a teacher, al-Zawahiri delegated numerous murderous assignments globally. He engaged in the assassination of political leaders, sought to develop chemical and biological weapons, recruited double and triple agents, turned the tables on his enemies, and pioneered the use of new media technology to convey al-Qaeda's zealotry. In 2011, al-Zawahiri succeeded bin Laden, to become the head of al-Qaeda and sought to rebuild and reform his organisation whilst being aided by murky ties in Pakistan and Iran and his Taliban allies. Against the background of the Arab Spring and the West's departure from Afghanistan, al-Zawahiri left a deadly legacy for al-Qaeda's future for years to come.
NO Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 421-456, Register
CN HV6430.Z38
SN 9780197665367
K1 Ẓawāhirī, Ayman
K1 Qaida (Organization)
K1 Tanẓīm al-Jihād al-Islāmī (Organization)
K1 Terrorists : Egypt : Biography
K1 Physicians : Egypt : Biography
K1 War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
K1 Internationaler Terrorismus
K1 Terrorist
K1 Dschihadismus
K1 Militanz
K1 Islam
K1 Ideologie
K1 Religion
K1 Naher Osten
K1 Mittlerer Osten
K1 Nordafrika