Jihadi Studies Bibliography v.1.0

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Jihadi Studies Bibliography
v. 1.0
Last Updated 12.15.12
Created by Aaron Y. Zelin
Books
al-Zayyat, Montasser. The Road To Al-Qaeda: The Story of Bin Laden's Right-Hand
Man
Ashour, Omar. The De-Radicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist
Movements
Ayoob, Mohammed. Religion And Politics In Saudi Arabia: Wahhabism and the State
Bergen, Peter. The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader
Bonner, Michael. Jihad in Islamic History: Doctrines and Practice
Brachman, Jarret. Global Jihadism: Theory and Practice
Brisard, Jean-Charles. Zarqawi: The New Face of Al-Qaeda
Calvert, John. Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
Cigar, Norman. Al-Qaida's Doctrine for Insurgency: Abd al-Aziz al-Muqrin's "A
Practical Course
for Guerrilla War"
Cook, David. Understanding Jihad
Deol, Jeevan and Kazmi, Zaheer. Contextualising Jihadi Thought
El Fadl, Khaled M. Abou. The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists
Finn, Melissa. Al-Qaeda and Sacrifice: Martyrdom, War and Politics.
Gartenstein-Ross, Daveed. Bin Laden's Legacy: Why We're Still Losing the War on
Terror
Hafez, Mohammed M. Suicide Bombers in Iraq: The Strategy and Ideology of
Martyrdom
Halverson, Jeffry R. Master Narratives of Islamist Extremism
Hansen, Stig Jarle. Al-Shabaab in Somalia: The History and Ideology of a Militant
Islamist
Group, 2005-2012
Hegghammer, Thomas. Jihad in Saudi Arabia: Violence and Pan-Islamism since
1979
Hegghammer, Thomas and Lacroix, Stephane. The Meccan Rebellion: The Story of
Juhayman
al-'Utaybi Revisited
Joffe, George. Islamist Radicalisation in North Africa: Politics and Process
Johnsen, Gregory. The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America's War in Arabia
Kepel, Gilles. Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam
Khatab, Sayed. The Political Thought of Sayyid Qutb: The Theory of Jahiliyyah
_____. The Power of Sovereignty: The Political and Ideological Philosophy of Sayyid
Qutb
_____. Understanding Islamic Fundamentalism: The Theological and Ideological
Basis of
al-Qa'ida's Political Tactics
Lacroix, Stephane. Awakening Islam: The Politics of Religious Dissent in
Contemporary Saudi
Arabia
Lahoud, Nelly. Jihadis’ Path To Self Destruction.
Lav, Daniel. Radical Islam and the Revival of Medieval Theology.
Lia, Brynar. Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of Al Qaeda Strategist Abu Mus'ab AlSuri
Lumbard, Joseph. Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition: Essays by
Western
Muslim Scholars
Meijer, Roel. Global Salafism: Islam's New Religious Movement
Moghadam, Assaf. The Globalization of Martyrdom: Al Qaeda, Salafi Jihad, and the
Diffusion of
Suicide Attacks
Musallam, Adnan A. From Secularism to Jihad: Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of
Radical
Islamism
Neumann, Peter R. Joining al-Qaeda: Jihadist Recruitment in Europe
Oliveti, Vicenzo, Terror's Source: The Ideology of Salafism and Its Consequences
Pantucci, Raffaello. "We Love Death as You Love Life": Britain's Suburban
Mujahedeen
Pargeter, Alison. The New Frontiers of Jihad: Radical Islam in Europe
Sasson, Jean. Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their
Secret
World
Shahzad, Syed Saleem. Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban: Beyond Bin Laden and
9/11
Sivan, Emmanuel. Radical Islam: Medieval Theology and Modern Politics
Tawil, Camille. Brothers In Arms: The Story of al-Qa'ida and the Arab Jihadists
Temple-Raston, Dina. The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough
Justice in an Age
of Terror
Wagemakers, Joas. A Quietist Jihadi: The Ideology and Influence of Abu
Muhammad al-Maqdisi
Wiktorowicz, Quintan. Radical Islam Rising: Muslim Extremism in the West
Wright, Lawrence. The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Journal Articles
Ab Imperio
Alexander Knysh -- Virtual Jihad in the Twenty-first Century- The Case of the
Caucasus Emirate
American Political Science Review
Andrew F. March -- Taking People As They Are- Islam As a "Realistic Utopia" in the
Political
Theory of Sayyid Qutb
Graeme Blair, C. Christine Fair, Neil Malhotra, and Jacob N. Shapiro -- Poverty and
Support for
Militant Politics- Evidence from Pakistan
Scott Ashworth, Joshua D. Clinton, Adam Meirowitz, and Kristopher W. Ramsay -Design,
Inference, and the Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
Arab Studies Journal
Darryl Li -- Taking the Place of Martyrs- Afghans and Arabs under the Banner of
Islam
Mohammad Salama and Rachel Friedman -- Locating the Secular in Sayyid Qutb
Arab Studies Quarterly
Joas Wagemakers -- Framing the ‘Threat to Islam’: al-wala’ wa al-bara’ in Salafi
Discourse
Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression
Shandon Harris-Hogan -- Anatomy of a terrorist cell- a study of the network
uncovered in
Sydney in 2005
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
Joas Wagemakers -- A Purist Jihadi-Salafi- The Ideology of Abu Muhammad alMaqdisi
Meir Hatina -- Redeeming Sunni Islam- Al-Qa‘ida's Polemic against the Muslim
Brethren
Central Asia Survey
Thomas H. Johnson and Matthew C. DuPee -- Analysing the new Taliban Code of
Conduct
(Layeha)- an assessment of changing perspectives and strategies of the
Afghan Taliban
Contemporary South Asia
Iain R. Edgar -- The 'true dream' in contemporary Islamic/Jihadist dreamwork- a case
study of
Taliban leader Mullah Omar
Die Welts des Islams
Joas Wagemakers -- Defining the Enemy- Abū Muḥammad al-Maqdisī’s Radical
Reading of
Sūrat al-Mumtaḥana
Intelligence and National Security
Jessica M. Huckabey & Mark E. Stout -- Al Qaida's Views of Authoritarian
Intelligence Services
in the Middle East
International Affairs
Fred Halliday -- 9/11 and Middle Eastern Studies past and future- revisiting Ivory
towers on sand
International Journal for Arab Studies
Aaron Y. Zelin -- al-Farīḍa al-Ghāʾiba and al-Sadat’s Assassination, a 30 Year
Retrospective
International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence
Shlomo Shpiro -- Israeli Intelligence and al-Qaeda
International Journal of Middle East Studies
Joas Wagemakers -- The Enduring Legacy of the Second Saudi State- Quietist and
Radical
Wahhabi Contestations of al-Wala' wa-l-Bara'
International Security
Assaf Moghadam -- Motives for Martyrdom Al-Qaida, Salafi Jihad, and the Spread of
Suicide
Attacks
Risa A. Brooks -- Muslim “Homegrown” Terrorism in the United States- How Serious
Is the
Threat?
Thomas Hegghammer -- The Rise of Muslim Foreign Fighters- Islam and the
Globalization of
Jihad
International Studies Quarterly
Jacob N. Shapiro and David A. Siegel -- Underfunding in Terrorist Organizations
Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations
John Calvert -- 'The World is an Undutiful Boy!'- Sayyid Qutb's American experience
Nick Chatrath -- Fighting the unbeliever- Anjem Choudary, Musharraf Hussain and
pre-modern
sources on sura 9.29, abrogation and jihad
Sayed Khatab -- Citizenship Rights of Non Muslims in the Islamic State of Hakimiyya
Espoused
by Sayyid Qutb
_____. The Voice of Democratism in Sayyid Qutb's Response to Violence and
Terrorism
Sipco Vellenga -- The Dutch and British Public Debate on Islam- Responses to the
Killing of
Theo van Gogh and the London Bombings Compared
Journal of Contemporary African Studies
David Gutelius -- Islam in Northern Mali and the War on Terror
Journal of Islamic Law and Culture
M. Cherif Bassiouni -- Evolving approaches to jihad- from self-defense to
revolutionary and
regime-change political violence
Muhammad al-Atawneh -- Shahada versus terror in contemporary Islamic legal
thought- the
problem of suicide bombers
Sherman A. Jackson -- Beyond Jihad- The New Thought of the Gama'a Islamiyya
Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs
Christian Bleuer -- Muslim Soldiers in Non-Muslim Militaries at War in Muslim Lands:
The Soviet,
American and Indian Experience
Kylie Connor -- “Islamism” in the West? The Life-Span of the Al-Muhajiroun in the
United
Kingdom
Shadee Elmasry -- The Salafis in America- The Rise, Decline and Prospects for a
Sunni Muslim
Movement among African Americans
Tahir Abbas -- Ethno-Religious Identities and Islamic Political Radicalism in the UKA Case
Study
Journal of Policing, Intelligence, and Counterterrorism
Abeeb Olufemi Salaam -- Boko Haram- beyond religious fanaticism
Journal of Qur’anic Studies
M.A.S. Abdel Haleem -- Qur'anic 'jihad'- A Linguistic and Contextual Analysis
Journal of the American Oriental Society
Ahmad Dallal -- The Origins and Objectives of Islamic Revivalist Thought, 17501850
Language and Communications
Flagg Miller -- Al-Qa'ida As a ‘‘Pragmatic Base”- Contributions of Area Studies to
Sociolinguistics
Media, War, and Conflict
Benjamin Ducol -- Uncovering the French-speaking jihadisphere- An exploratory
analysis
Jeffry R Halverson and Amy K Way -- The curious case of Colleen LaRose- Social
margins,
new media, and online radicalization
Mediterranean Politics
Manuel R. Torres Soriano -- The Evolution of the Discourse of Al- Qaeda in the
Islamic
Maghreb- Themes, Countries and Individuals
Michigan Law Review
Robert Chesney -- Beyond the Battlefield, Beyond Al Qaeda- The Destabilizing
Legal
Architecture of Counterterrorism
Middle East Journal
Mark Long -- Ribat, al-Qa‘ida, and the Challenge for US Foreign Policy
Middle East Policy
Joas Wagemakers -- Protecting Jihad The Sharia Council of the Minbar al-Tawhid
wa-l-Jihad
Middle Eastern Studies
Alexander Knysh -- Contextualizing the Salafi – Sufi conflict (from the Northern
Caucasus to
Hadramawt)
Asaf Maliach -- Bin Ladin, Palestine and al-Qa‘ida’s Operational Strategy
Danny Orbach -- Tyrannicide in Radical Islam- The Case of Sayyid Qutb and Abd alSalam
Faraj
Madawi Al-Rasheed -- The Quest to Understand Global Jihad- The Terrorism
Industry and its
Discontents
Muhammad al-Atawneh -- Wahhabi Self-Examinaion Post-9/11- Rethinking the
'Other',
'Otherness' and Tolerance
Sayed Khatab -- Hakimiyyah and Jahiliyyah in the Thought of Sayyid Qutb
Suha Taji‐Farouki -- Islamists and the threat of Jihad- Hizb al‐Tahrir and al‐
Muhajiroun on
Israel and the Jews
William E. Shepard -- Islam as a ‘system’ in the later writings of Sayyid Qutb
Yehudit Ronen -- Qadhafi and Militant Islamism- Unprecedented Conflict
Notre Dame Journal of International and Comparative Law
Cynthia Shawamreh -- Islamic Legal Theory and the Context of Islamist Movements
Perspectives on Terrorism
Bill Braniff and Assaf Moghadam -- Towards Global Jihadism: Al-Qaeda's Strategic,
Ideological
and Structural Adaptations since 9/11
Brynjar Lia -- Al-Qaida’s Appeal: Understanding its Unique Selling Points
Christopher Anzalone -- Zachary Chesser: an American, Grassroots Jihadist
Strategist on
Raising the Next Generation of Al-Qaeda Supporters
Donald Holbrook -- Using the Qur’an to Justify Terrorist Violence: Analysing
Selective
Application of the Qur’an in English-Language Militant Islamist Discourse
Jarret Brachman -- Abu Yahya’s Six Easy Steps for Defeating al-Qaeda
Jytte Klausen, Eliane Tschaen Barbieri, Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, Aaron Y. Zelin -The YouTube
Jihadists: A Social Network Analysis of Al-Muhajiroun’s Propaganda
Campaign
Manuel R. Torres Soriano -- Jihadist Propaganda and Its Audiences: A Change of
Course?
Matthew Levitt -- Foreign Fighters and Their Economic Impact: a Case Study of
Syria and
al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI)
Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Zulkifli Mohamed -- Inside an Indonesian Online
Library for
Radical Materials
Omar Ashour -- De-Radicalization of Jihad? The Impact of Egyptian Islamist
Revisionists on
Al-Qaeda
_____. Online De-Radicalization? Countering Violent Extremist Narratives:
Message,
Messenger and Media Strategy
Raffaello Pantucci -- Operation Praline: The Realization of Al-Suri’s Nizam, la
Tanzim?
Politics, Religion, and Ideology
David Martin Jones and Michael K.R. Smith -- Ideology, Networks and Political
ReligionStructure and Agency in Jemaah Islamiah's Small World
Joas Wagemakers -- Al-Qa'ida's Editor- Abu Jandal al-Azdi's Online Jihadi Activism
Mona Kanwal Sheikh -- Sacred Pillars of Violence- Findings from a Study of the
Pakistani
Taliban
Religion
Rosalind W. Gwynne -- Usama bin Ladin, the Qur’an and Jihad
Review of International Studies
Barak Mendelsohn -- God vs. Westphalia- radical Islamist movements and the battle
for organising the World
Seasons
Abdul Hakim Sherman Jackson -- Jihad in the Modern World
Reza Shah-Kazemi -- From the Spirituality of Jihad to the Ideology of Jihadism
Zaid Shakir -- Jihad is Not Perpetual Warfare
Small Wars and Insurgencies
Vernie Liebl -- Al Qaida on the US invasion of Afghanistan in their own words
Social Forces
Ami Pedahzur and Arie Perliger -- The Changing Nature of Suicide Attacks- A Social
Network
Perspective
Stanford Law Review
Samuel J. Rascoff -- Establishing Official Islam? The Law and Strategy of
Counter-Radicalization
Studies in Conflict and Terrorism
Alexander Knysh -- Islam and Arabic as the Rhetoric of Insurgency- The Case of the
Caucasus
Emirate
Anne Stenersen -- Al Qaeda's Foot Soldiers- A Study of the Biographies of Foreign
Fighters
Killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan Between 2002 and 2006
Behnam Said -- Hymns (Nasheeds)- A Contribution to the Study of the Jihadist
Culture
Bryce Loidol -- Managing the Global and Local- The Dual Agendas of Al Qaeda in
the Arabian
Peninsula
Brynjar Lia and Thomas Hegghammer -- Jihadi Strategic Studies- The Alleged Al
Qaida Policy
Study Preceding the Madrid Bombings
Cerwyn Moore & Paul Tumelty -- Foreign Fighters and the Case of Chechnya- A
Critical
Assessment
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Tara Vassefi -- Perceptions of the “Arab Spring”
Within the
Salafi-Jihadi Movement
Dima Adamsky -- Jihadi Operational Art- The Coming Wave of Jihadi Strategic
Studies
Eliane Tschaen-Barbieri and Jytte Klausen -- Al Qaeda's London Branch: Patterns of
Domestic
and Transnational Network Integration
Gabriel Weimann -- Cyber-Fatwas and Terrorism
______. Virtual Disputes- The Use of the Internet for Terrorist Debates
Jarret M. Brachman and William F. McCants -- Stealing Al Qaeda’s Playbook
Jean-Luc Marret -- Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb- A “Glocal” Organization
Joas Wagemakers -- Reclaiming Scholarly Authority- Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi’s
Critique of
Jihadi Practices
Katharina Von Knop -- The Female Jihad- Al Qaeda’s Women
Lucas Winter -- The Abdullah Azzam Brigades
Marc Lynch -- Islam Divided Between Salafi-jihad and the Ikhwan
Manuel R. Torres Soriano -- Spain as an Object of Jihadist Propaganda
_____. The Vulnerabilities of Online Terrorism
Mark Stout -- In Search of Salafi Jihadist Strategic Thought- Mining the Words of the
Terrorist
Michael Jacobson -- Terrorist Financing and the Internet
Pauline Hope Cheong and Jeffry R. Halverson -- Youths in Violent Extremist
Discourse-
Mediated Identifications and Interventions
Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank -- Revisiting the Early Al Qaeda- An Updated
Account of its
Formative Years
Petter Nesser -- Jihadism in Western Europe After the Invasion of Iraq- Tracing
Motivational
Influences from the Iraq War on Jihadist Terrorism in Western Europe
Peter Neumann, Ryan Evans, and Raffaello Pantucci -- Locating Al Qaeda's Center
of GravityThe Role of Middle Managers
Quintan Wiktorowicz -- Anatomy of the Salafi Movement
_____. Geneology of Radical Islam
Raffaello Pantucci -- The Tottenham Ayatollah and The Hook-Handed Cleric- An
Examination of
All Their Jihadi Children
Rohan Gunaratna & Aviv Oreg -- Al Qaeda's Organizational Structure and its
Evolution
Scott Helfstein and Dominick Wright -- Success, Lethality, and Cell Structure Across
the
Dimensions of Al Qaeda
Shandon Harris-Hogan -- Australian Neo- Jihadist Terrorism- Mapping the Network
and Cell
Analysis Using Wiretap Evidence
Simon Haddad -- Fatah al-Islam in Lebanon- Anatomy of a Terrorist Organization
Steven Brook -- Jihadist Strategic Debates Before 9/11
Survival
Barak Mendelsohn -- Al-Qaeda’s Franchising Strategy
Terrorism and Political Violence
Anne Stenersen -- The Internet- A Virtual Training Camp?
Brynjar Lia -- Doctrines for Jihadi Terrorist Training
Jonathan Kennedy and Gabriel Weimann -- The Strength of Weak Ties
Manuel R. Torres, Javier Jordán, and Nicola Horsburgh -- Analysis and Evolution of
the Global
Jihadist Movement Propaganda
_____. The Road to Media Jihad- The Propaganda Actions of al-Qaeda in the
Islamic Maghreb
_____. Between the Pen and the Sword- The Global Islamic Media Front in the West
Matt Buehler -- Safety-Valve Elections and the Arab Spring: The Weakening (and
Resurgence)
of Morocco’s Islamist Opposition Party
Max Taylor and Mohamed E. Elbushra -- Research Note- Hassan al-Turabi, Osama
bin Laden,
and Al Qaeda in Sudan
Michael Page, Lara Challita, and Alistair Harris -- Al Qaeda in the Arabian PeninsulaFraming
Narratives and Prescriptions
Mohammed M. Hafez -- Martyrdom Mythology in Iraq- How Jihadists Frame Suicide
Terrorism in
Videos and Biographies
Nimrod Raphaeli -- Ayman Muhammad Rabi' al-Zawahiri- The Making of an ArchTerrorist
Omar Ashour -- Post-Jihadism- Libya and the Global Transformations of Armed
Islamist Movements
Petter Nesser -- Ideologies of Jihad in Europe
Ryan Clarke -- Lashkar-i-Taiba- Roots, Logistics, Parternships, and the Fallacy of
Subservient
Proxies
Sam Mullins -- Islamist Terrorism and Australia- An Empirical Examination of the
"Home-Grown"
Threat
The Fletcher Forum on World Affairs
Jarret M. Brachman -- High-Tech Terror- Al-Qaeda’s Use of New Technology
Jarret M. Brachman and Alix N. Levine -- You Too Can Be Awlaki!
The Muslim World
Bruce B. Lawrence -- The Late Shaikh Osama bin Laden- A Religious Profile of alQaeda's
Deceased Poster Child
The Review of Faith and International Affairs
John Kelsay -- The New Jihad and Islamic Tradition
The Washington Quarterly
Brian Fishman -- Al-Qaeda and the Rise of China- Jihadi Geopolitics in a PostHegemonic
World
Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions
David Cook -- Islamism and Jihadism- The Transformation of Classical Notions of
Jihad into an
Ideology of Terrorism
Nelly Lahoud -- In Search of Philosopher-Jihadis- Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi's
Jihadi
Philosophy
Other Articles
AIVD
Jihadism on the Web- A breeding ground for Jihad in the modern age
Afghan Analysts Network
Kate Clark -- The Layha- Calling the Taleban to Account
Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Terje Østebø -- Islamic Militancy in Africa
al-Jazeera Center for Studies
Jamal Al Sharif -- Salafis in Sudan- Between Non-Interference and Confrontation
Mohamed Salem Ould Mohamed -- Purist Salafism in the Sahel and Its Position on
the Jihadist
Map
Association of Concerned Africa Scholars
Alex Thurston -- Counterterrorism and democracy promotion in the Sahel under
Presidents
George W. Bush and Barack Obama from September 11, 2001, to the
Nigerien Coup of
February 2010
Stephen Harmon -- From GSPC to AQIM- The evolution of an Algerian islamist
terrorist group
into an Al-Qa‘ida Affiliate and its implications for the Sahara-Sahel region
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen -- Al Qaeda's Religious Justification of Nuclear Terrorism
Bipartisan Policy Center
Peter Neumann -- Countering Online Radicalization in America
Brookings Institution
Daniel L. Byman -- Breaking the Bonds Between Al-Qa'ida and Its Affiliate
Organizations
Omar Ashour -- Libyan Islamists Unpacked- Rise, Transformation, and Future
Will McCants -- The Lesser of Two Evils- The Salafi Turn to Party Politics in Egypt
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Amr Hamzawy & Sarah Grebowski -- From Violence to Moderation- Al-Jama‘a alIslamiya and
al-Jihad
Jean-Pierre Filiu -- Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb- Algerian Challenge or Global
Threat?
_____. Could Al-Qaeda Turn African in the Sahel?
Sarah Phillips -- What Comes Next in Yemen? AQ, the Tribes, and State-Building
Center for Strategic Communication
Jeffry R. Halverson -- The Tariq ibn Ziyad Master Narrative
Jeffry R. Halverson, R. Bennett Furlow, and Steven R. Corman -- How Islamist
Extremists
Quote the Qur’an
CEPS
Olivier Walther & Denis Retille -- Sahara or Sahel? The fuzzy geography of terrorism
in West
Africa
Combating Terrorism Center
Cracks in the Foundation- Leadership Schisms in al-Qa’ida from 1989-2006
Don Rassler and Vahid Brown -- The Haqqani Nexus and the Evolution of al-Qa’ida
Gabriel Koehler-Derrick -- A False Foundation? AQAP, Tribes and Ungoverned
Spaces in
Yemen
Jarret R. Brachman and William F. McCants -- Stealing Al-Qa’ida’s Playbook
Nelly Lahoud -- Beware of Imitators- al-Qa`ida through the lens of its Confidential
Secretary
Scott Helfstein -- Edges of Radicalization- Ideas, Individuals and Networks in Violent
Extremism
Scott Helfstein, Nassir Abdullah, and Muhammad al-Obaidi -- Deadly Vanguards- A
Study of
al‐Qa’ida’s Violence Against Muslims
Self-Inflicted Wounds Debates and Divisions within al-Qa’ida and its Periphery
Thomas Hegghammer -- The Failure of Jihad in Saudi Arabia
William McCants and Jarret Brachman -- Militant Ideology Atlas
Critical Threats Project
Charlie Szrom and Chris Harnisch -- al-Qaeda's Operating Environments- A New
Approach to
the War on Terror
Chris Harnisch -- The Terror Threat From Somalia- The Internationalization of al
Shabaab
CTC Sentinel
Aaron Y. Zelin -- Revolution Muslim: Downfall or Respite?
_____. The Rise of Salafists in Tunisia After the Fall of Ben Ali
Aaron Y. Zelin and Andrew Lebovich -- Assessing Al-Qa`ida’s Presence in the New
Libya
Abdul Hameed Bakier -- Internet Jihadists React to the Deaths of Al-Qa`ida’s
Leaders in Iraq
Abdullah Warius and Brian Fishman -- A Jihadist’s Course in the Art of Recruitment
Abdullah Warius and Jarret Brachman -- Abu Yahya al-Libi’s “Human Shields in
Modern Jihad”
Akil N. Awan -- The Virtual Jihad
Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens -- Al-Shabab’s Western Recruitment Strategy
_____. Anwar al-`Awlaqi’s Disciples: Three Case Studies
Alison Pargeter -- Are Islamist Extremists Fighting Among Libya’s Rebels?
_____. LIFG Revisions Unlikely to Reduce Jihadist Violence
_____. The LIFG’s Current Role in the Global Jihad
Andrew Lebovich -- AQIM Returns in Force in Northern Algeria
Andrew Zammit -- The Holsworthy Barracks Plot: A Case Study of an Al-Shabab
Support
Network in Australia
Assaf Moghadam -- The Salafi-Jihad as a Religious Ideology
Barak Barfi -- Al-Qa`ida’s Confused Messaging on Libya
_____. AQAP’s Soft Power Strategy in Yemen
Benedetta Berti -- Salafi-Jihadi Activism in Gaza
Bilal Y. Saab -- Al-Qa`ida’s Presence and Influence in Lebanon
_____. Lebanon at Risk from Salafi-Jihadi Terrorist Cells
_____. The Failure of Salafi-Jihadi Insurgent Movements in the Levant
Brian Fishman -- Jihadists Target the American Dream
_____. The Evidence of Jihadist Activity in Syria
Brian O’Neill -- AQAP a Rising Threat in Yemen
Bruce Riedel -- The Mysterious Relationship Between Al-Qa`ida and Iran
Brynjar Lia -- Abu Mus`ab al-Suri’s Critique of Hard Line Salafists in the Jihadist
Current
Carlos Echeverría Jesús -- The Current State of the Moroccan Islamic Combatant
Group
Camille Tawil -- How Bin Ladin’s Death Will Affect Al-Qa`ida’s Regional Franchises
Christopher Anzalone -- Al-Shabab’s Setbacks in Somalia
_____. Kenya’s Muslim Youth Center and Al-Shabab’s East African Recruitment
_____. Revisiting Shaykh Atiyyatullah’s Works on Takfir and Mass Violence
_____. The Evolution of an American Jihadi: The Case of Omar Hammami
Christopher Boucek -- Examining Saudi Arabia’s 85 Most Wanted List
_____. The Sakinah Campaign and Internet Counter-Radicalization in Saudi Arabia
_____. The Saudi Process of Repatriating and Reintegrating Guantanamo
Returnees
Christopher Heffelfinger -- Anwar al-`Awlaqi: Profile of a Jihadi Radicalizer
Christopher Swift -- Arc of Convergence: AQAP, Ansar al-Shari`a and the Struggle
for Yemen
David Cook -- The Rise of Boko Haram in Nigeria
David J. Kilcullen -- Field Notes on Iraq’s Tribal Revolt Against Al-Qa`ida
Don Rassler -- Al-Qa`ida’s Pakistan Strategy
Evan F. Kohlmann -- A Beacon for Extremists
_____. Al-Qa`ida’s “MySpace”
Flagg Miller -- Insights from Bin Ladin’s Audiocassette Library in Kandahar
Fernando Reinares -- The Evidence of Al-Qa`ida’s Role in the 2004 Madrid Attack
Gabriel Weimann -- Al-Qa`ida’s Extensive Use of the Internet
Geoff D. Porter -- AQIM’s Objectives in North Africa
_____. The Attack on the U.S. Consulate: Emerging Signs of Jihadist Sentiment in
Libya
Gregory D. Johnsen -- A Profile of AQAP’s Upper Echelon
_____. Al-Qa`ida in Yemen’s 2008 Campaign
_____. AQAP in Yemen and the Christmas Day Terrorist Attack
_____. Assessing the Strength of Al-Qa`ida in Yemen
_____. The Expansion Strategy of Al-Qa`ida in the Arabian Peninsula
_____. The Impact of Bin Ladin’s Death on AQAP in Yemen
Hassan Abbas -- A Profile of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
J.M. Berger -- The Enduring Appeal of Al-`Awlaqi’s “Constants on the Path of Jihad”
Jack F. Williams and Marisa Urgo -- Al-Qa`ida’s Medinan Strategy
Jacob Zenn -- Boko Haram’s Dangerous Expansion into Northwest Nigeria
James Brandon -- British Muslims Providing Foot Soldiers for the Global Jihad
_____. The Changing Face of Salafi-Jihadi Movements in the United Kingdom
Jarret Brachman -- Al-Qa`ida’s Changing Outlook on Pakistan Jarret Brachman
_____. Leading Egyptian Jihadist Sayyid Imam Renounces Violence
Joas Wagemakers -- Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi
Jean-Pierre Filiu -- Al-Qa`ida in the Islamic Maghreb
Kirsten E. Schulze -- Indonesia’s Approach to Jihadist Deradicalization
Laurent Bonnefoy -- Deconstructing Salafism in Yemen
Leah Farrall -- Will Al-Qa`ida and Al-Shabab Formally Merge?
Lianne Kennedy Boudali -- Leveraging History in AQIM Communications
Mary Habeck -- Al-Qa`ida and Hamas
Mathieu Guidere -- The Tribal Allegiance System within AQIM
Matthew Levitt -- Al-Qa`ida’s Finances
______. Israel as an Al-Qa`ida Target- Sorting Rhetoric From Reality
Michael Knights -- The Current State of Al-Qa`ida in Saudi Arabia
Mukhtar A. Khan -- A Profile of the TTP’s New Leader- Hakimullah Mehsud
Murad Batal al-Shishani -- The Dangerous Ideas of the Neo-Zarqawist Movement
Nelly Lahoud -- Ayman al-Zawahiri’s Reaction to Revolution in the Middle East
_____. Bin Ladin’s Death Through the Lens of Al-Qa`ida’s Confidential Secretary
_____. Revolution in Tunisia and Egypt: A Blow to the Jihadist Narrative?
_____. The Merger of Al-Shabab and Qa`idat al-Jihad
_____. The Strengths and Weaknesses of Jihadist Ideology
Pascale Combelles Siegel -- Islamic State of Iraq Commemorates its Two-Year
Anniversary
Paul Cruickshank -- LIFG Revisions Posing Critical Challenge to Al-Qa`ida
Phillip Mudd -- Are Jihadist Groups Shifting Their Focus from the Far Enemy?
Praveen Swami -- The Indian Mujahidin and Lashkar-i-Tayyiba’s Transnational
Networks
Raffaello Pantucci -- A Biography of Rashid Rauf: Al-Qa`ida’s British Operative
_____. The Changing Scene in Londonistan
Rebecca Molloy -- Deconstructing Ibn Taymiyya’s Views on Suicidal Missions
Sara Daly and William Rosenau -- American Journeys to Jihad
Seth Nye -- Al-Qa`ida’s Key Operative: A Profile of Mohammed Ilyas Kashmiri
Thomas Hegghammer -- Deconstructing the Myth about al-Qa`ida and Khobar
Current Trends in Islamist Ideology
Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens and Jacob Amis -- The Making of the Christmas Day
Bomber
Clara Beyler -- The Jihadist Threat in France
Gilles Kepel -- The Brotherhood in the Salafist Universe
Hassan Mneimneh -- The Spring of a New Political Salafism?
Hillel Fradkin -- The History and Unwritten Future of Salafism
James Brandon and Raffaello Pantucci -- UK Islamists and the Arab Uprisings
Jean-Pierre Filiu -- The Brotherhood vs. Al-Qaeda: A Moment Of Truth?
Lorenzo Vidino -- Islam, Islamism and Jihadism in Italy
Nibras Kazimi -- A Virulent Ideology in Mutation: Zarqawi Upstages Maqdisi
_____. The Caliphate Attempted Zarqawi's Ideological Heirs, their Choice for a
Caliph, and the
Collapse of their Self-Styled "Islamic State of Iraq"
_____. Zarqawi's Anti-Shia Legacy: Original or Borrowed?
Reuven Paz -- Salafi-Jihadi Responses to Hamas' Electoral Victory
_____. The Impact of the War in Iraq On the Global Jihad
Shmuel Bar and Yair Minzili -- The Zawahiri Letter and the Strategy of al-Qaeda
Steven Brooke -- The Preacher and the Jihadi
Tawfiq Hamid -- The Development of A Jihadist's Mind
Thomas Hegghammer -- The Ideological Hybridization of Jihadi Groups
Danish Institute for International Studies
Qandeel Siddique -- Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan- An attempt to deconstruct the
umbrella
organization and the reasons for its growth in Pakistan’s north-west
E-Prism
Deborah Touboul -- Francophone Internet Forums Shed Light on Concerns and
Issues of
Islamists in Europe
Foreign Affairs
Bruce Hoffman -- The Myth of Grassroots Terrorism
Leah Farrall -- How al-Qaeda Works
Marc Sageman -- Does Osama Still Call the Shots?
William McCants -- Al Qaeda's Challenge
Foreign Policy
Daniel Byman -- Al Qaeda's M&A Strategy
Jarret Brachman -- Al Qaeda's Armies of One
_____. Al Qaeda’s Dissent
_____. The Next Osama
J.M. Berger -- The Myth of Anwar al-Awlaki
William McCants -- Black Flag
Foreign Policy Research Institute
Matthew Levitt -- Foreign Fighters and Their Economic Impact- A Case Study of
Syria and al
Qaeda in Iraq (AQI)
Foundation for Defense of Democracy
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Cindy D. Tan -- Profile of an Ideologue- Abu Yahya
al-Libi
Global Terrorism Research Centre
Andrew Zammit -- Who becomes a jihadist in Australia? A comparative analysis
Harvard University
Rich Nielsen -- Jihadi Radicalization of Muslim Clerics
Homeland Security Policy Institute
Clint Watts and Andrew Lebovich -- Hammami’s Plight Amidst al-Shabaab and alQaeda’s
Game of Thrones
Frank J. Cilluffo, Jeffrey B. Cozzens, and Magnus Ranstorp -- Foreign FightersTrends,
Trajectories & Conflict Zones
Institute for Security Studies
Anneli Botha -- Terrorism in the Maghreb- The Transnationalisation of Domestic
Terrorism
Institute for the Study of War
Elizabeth O’Bagy -- Jihad in Syria
International Crisis Group
How Indonesian Extremists Regroup
Indonesian Jihadism- Small Groups, Big Plans
Kenyan Somali Islamist Radicalisation
Northern Nigeria - Background to Conflict
Radical Islam in Gaza
Tentative Jihad- Syria’s Fundamentalist Opposition
International Reports
Dirk Baehr -- The Somali Shabaab Militias and Their Jihadist Networks in the West
James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
David Cook -- Boko Haram- A Prognosis
Jane’s Intelligence
Leah Farrall -- Evolution of AQ's Command
_____. Forward focus assessing al-Qaeda’s in-theater capabilities
Joint Forces Quarterly
Jeffrey B. Cozzens -- Victory- From the Prism of Jihadi Culture
Joint Special Operations University
Derek Jones -- Understanding the Form, Function, and Logic of Clandestine
Insurgent and
Terrorist Networks- The First Step in Effective Counternetwork Operations
MICROCON
Samir Amghar -- Ideological and Theological Foundations of Muslim Radicalism in
France
Militant Leadership Monitor
Aaron Y. Zelin -- Missionary at Home, Jihadist Abroad: A Profile of Tunisia’s Abu
Ayyad the Amir
of Ansar al-Shari‘ah
_____. Purifying Islam and Combating the West: Post Mortem Analysis of the
Indelible Impact of
al-Qaeda’s Abu Yahya al-Libi
Andrew McGregor -- A Jihadi in the Horn of Africa: al-Shabaab’s Ahmad Abdi
Godane “Abu
Zubayr”
_____. Restoring the Caliphate in Yemen: A Look at Shaykh Abd al-Majid al-Zindani
_____. The Ideological Inspiration for Boko Haram: A Profile of Mallam Muhammadu
Marwa and
His Impact on Religious Extremism in Northern Nigeria
Arif Jamal -- In His Own Words, Abu Zar al-Burmi: The Mufti of the Islamic
Movement of
Uzbekistan
_____. South Asia's Architect of Jihad: A Profile of Commander Mohammed Ilyas
Kashmiri
Camille Tawil -- A Jihadist in the Sand: The Rise of Abdelmalek Droukdel, alQaeda’s Amir in
Algeria
Casey L. Coombs -- Abu Hamza Al-Murqoshi: The Enigmatic Amir of Yemen’s Ansar
Al-Shari’a
Chris Zambelis -- A Profile of Radical Jamaican-born Cleric Sheikh Abdullah alFaisal
al-Jamaikee
Dario Cristiani -- Amir of the Southern Sahara: A Fresh Look at AQIM’s Mokhtar
Belmokhtar
_____. For Profit Jihad: An In-Depth Profile of AQIM’s Abou Zeid
Derek Henry Flood -- The Duo from Derna: Libya’s Émigré Jihadis Turned Internal
Revolutionaries
Jacob Zenn -- Al-Qaeda's Uighur Jihadi: A Profile of the Turkistan Islamic Party's
Abdul
Shakoor Turkistani
_____. Boko Haram’s Radical Ideologue: An In-Depth Look At Northern Nigeria’s
Abu Shekau
Mairbek Vatchagaev -- Amir Muhannad: The Last of Chechnya’s Arab Volunteers
Muhyadin Ahmed Roble -- The Life of an American in Somalia’s Jihad: An In-Depth
Portrait of
al-Amriki
_____. The Life of Shaykh Hassan Dahir Aweys: Founder of Somalia’s Armed
Islamist
Movement
Murad Batal al-Shishani -- A Look at Abd al-Hakim Belhadj’s Transformation from
Jihadi to
Libyan Revolutionary
_____. A Portrait of Abu Bakr bin Abdul Aziz al-Athri: Salafi-Jihad’s Emerging
Internet Ideologue
_____. A Portrait of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi: Intellectual and Ideologue in the
Global
Salafi-Jihadist Movement
_____. A Post-Mortem Analysis of AQAP Tribal Implementer Tariq al-Dhahab
_____. A Profile of AQAP’s Fahd al-Quso’
_____. A Profile of Ibrahim al-Asiri: AQAP’s Unconventional Bomb Maker
_____. Abu Muhammad al-Tahawi: The Leader of Jordan’s Jihadi Protestors
_____. Adel al-Abbab: Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s Religious Ideologue
_____. From 9/11 to Iraq: The Long Arm of Saudi Arabia's Suliman al-Elwan
_____. From Yemen to Detroit: The Expanding Influence of AQAP’s Sa’id al-Shihri
_____. In the Shadow of al-Zarqawi: A Profile of the Saudi Militant Saleh al-Qara’wi
_____. Jordan's Abu Sayyaf: The Key Islamist Actor in Ma'an
_____. Majid bin Muhammad al-Majid: The New Commander of the Abdullah Azzam
Brigades
_____. Saudi Arabia’s Jihadi Jailbird: A Portrait of al-Shu'aybi Ideologue Nasir alFahd
Raffaello Pantucci and A.R. Sayyid -- A Profile of Shaykh Abdulcaadir Mumin: AlShabaab’s
Leading Theological Guide
Rafid Fadhil Mohammed Ali -- AQAP’s Man in the South: Nasir al-Wuhayshi
Zachary Abuza -- Umar Patek: Indonesia’s Most Wanted
National Institute of Justice
Edna Erez, Gabriel Weimann, and A. Aaron Weisburd -- Jihad, Crime, and the
Internet- Content
Analysis of Jihadist Forum Discussions
New America Foundation
Anne Stenersen -- Al-Qaeda's Allies- Explaining the Relationship Between Al-Qaeda
and
Taliban Factions After 2001
Brian Fishman -- Redefining the Islamic State- The Fall and Rise of Al-Qaeda in Iraq
Brian Fishman and Andrew Lebovich -- Countering Domestic Radicalization Lessons
for
Intelligence Collection and Community Outreach
Daniel Kimmage -- Al-Qaeda Central and the Internet
Stephen Tankel -- Lashkar-e-Taiba- Past Operations and Future Prospects
_____. Lashkar-e-Taiba in Perspective- An Evolving Threat
Norwegian Defence Research Establishment
Brynjar Lia -- Jihadi Web Media Production
Hanna Rogan -- Al-Qaeda’s online media strategies- From Abu Reuter to Irhabi 007
_____. Jihadism Online- A Study of How al-Qaida and Radical Islamist Groups Use
the Internet for Terrorist Purposes
Truls Hallberg Tønnessen -- The Islamic Emirate of Fallujah
NYPD
Mitchell D. Silber and Arvin Bhatt -- Radicalization in the West- The Homegrown
Threat
Quilliam Foundation
Camille Tawil -- The Other Face of Al-Qaeda
Mohammed Ali Musawi -- Cheering for Osama- How jihadists use internet discussion
forums
RAND
An Economic Analysis of the Financial Records of al-Qa’ida in Iraq
Brian Michael Jenkins -- Stray Dogs and Virtual Armies Radicalization and
Recruitment to
Jihadist Terrorism in the United States Since 9/11
Real Instituto Elcano
Michael Taarnby and Lars Hallundbaek -- Fatah al-Islam- Anthropological
Perspectives on
Jihadi Culture
Research Institute for European and American Studies
Nico Prucha -- ‘ABDALLAH ‘AZZAM’S OUTLOOK FOR JIHAD IN 1988 – “AL-JIHAD
BETWEEN KABUL AND JERUSALEM”
_____. A LOOK AT JIHADISTS SUICIDE FATWAS- THE CASE OF ALGERIA
RFE/RL
Daniel Kimmage -- The Al-Qaeda Media Nexus- the Virtual Network Behind the
Global Message
Daniel Kimmage and Kathleen Ridolfo -- Iraqi Insurgent Media- The War Of Images
And Ideas
RUSI
Benedict Wilkinson and Jack Barclay -- The Language of Jihad Narratives and
Strategies of
Al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula and UK Responses
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Zachary Chesser- A Case Study in Online Islamist Radicalization and Its Meaning
for the
Threat of Homegrown Terrorism
Sky News
Kirk H. Sowell -- Promoting Jihad Against China- The Turkistani Islamic Party in
Arabic Jihadist
Media
Strategic Studies Institute
Stephen J. Blank -- Russia's Homegrown Insurgency- Jihad in the North Caucasus
Small Wars Journal
Jai Singh and John David Perry -- Ayman Al-Zawahiri’s Citations of the Qur’an- A
Descriptive
Study of Selected Works
Youssef Aboul-Enein -- Reflections on Algeria’s Islamist Experiences, Past and
Present
Youssef Aboul-Enein & Dorothy Corley -- Yemeni Intellectual Saeed al-Jamhi
Ideologically
Attacks al-Qaida- Exploring Recent Arabic Volumes Deconstructing Militant
Islamist Narratives
Terrorism Monitor
Abdul Hameed Bakier -- Al-Qaeda in Yemen Supports Southern Secession
_____. GIMF Develops Defensive and Offensive Software for Jihadi Operations
_____. Imprisoned Leader of Egypt’s Islamic Jihad Challenges al-Qaeda
_____. Islamic State of Iraq Brings Internet Propaganda to the Streets
_____. Jihadis Ask How the Mujahideen Will Control an Islamic State of Iraq
_____. Jihadis Question al-Qaeda’s Relationship with Israel
_____. Jihadis Search for Intelligence Penetration on Jihadi Website Forums
_____. Militants Ask Whether Jihad is Defeated in Iraq
_____. Palestinians Skeptical of Osama bin Laden’s Plans for Gaza
_____. The Evolution of Jihadi Electronic Counter-Measures
_____. The New Issue of Technical Mujahid, a Training Manual for Jihadis
Adrian Shahbaz -- Strategic and Tactical Shift Keeps al-Qaeda Insurgency Alive in
Southern
Yemen
Alison Pargeter -- Libyan Fighters Join the Iraqi Jihad
_____. LIFG: An Organization in Eclipse
Andrew Black -- Mokhtar Belmokhtar: The Algerian Jihad’s Southern Amir
_____. The Ideological Struggle Over al-Qaeda’s Suicide Tactics in Algeria
Andrew McGregor -- Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood: Alternative Visions of
an Islamist
Egypt
_____. Bin Laden's African Folly: Al-Qaeda in Darfur
_____. Mali Pays the Price of al-Qaeda’s Asymmetrical Threat
_____. Military Rebellion and Islamism in Mauritania
Anouar Boukhars -- The Challenge of Radical Islam in Mauritania
_____. The Origins of Militancy and Salafism in Morocco
Arif Jamal -- Bin Laden’s Neighbors Say Compound Was Under Surveillance Since
2005
Aron Lund -- Holier Than Thou: Rival Clerics in the Syrian Jihad
Brian Glyn Williams -- The 'chechen Arabs': An Introduction To The Real Al Qaeda
Terrorists
From Chechnya
Brynjar Lia -- Al-Suri's Doctrines for Decentralized Jihadi Training - Part 1
_____. Al-Suri's Doctrines for Decentralized Jihadi Training - Part 2
Camille Tawil -- Libyan Islamists Back Away from al-Qaeda Merger in Reconciliation
with
Qaddafi Regime
_____. The Changing Face of the Jihadist Movement in Libya
_____. Tripoli’s Islamist Militia Leader Turns to Politics in the New Libya
Cerwyn Moore -- The Rise and Fall of the Islamic Jihad Union: What Next for Uzbek
Terror
Networks?
Chris Heffelfinger -- Behind the Indoctrination and Training of American Jihadis
_____. Kuwaiti Cleric Hamid al-Ali: The Bridge Between Ideology and Action
_____. The Ideological Voices of the Jihadi Movement
Chris Zambelis -- Foreign Fighters Bring a Global Agenda to Syria
_____. Radical Networks in Middle East Prisons
Dan G. Cox -- Sectarian Violence in Burma Attracting the Attention of International
Jihadist
Groups
Dario Cristiani -- Between Electoral Politics and Global Jihad: Libya’s Islamist
Groups Consider
New Options
Dario Cristiani and Riccardo Fabiani -- AQIM Funds Terrorist Operations with
Thriving
Sahel-Based Kidnapping Industry
Erik Stier -- Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and the Protests in Yemen
Evgenii Novikov -- The Soviet Roots Of Islamic Militancy In Yemen
Gary Gambill -- Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi: A Biographical Sketch
_____. The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG)
Geoff Porter -- Splits Revealed Inside Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Gordon Corera -- Unraveling Zarqawi’s al-Qaeda Connection
Gregory D. Johnsen -- Profile of Sheikh Abd al-Majid al-Zindani
_____. The Resiliency of Yemen's Aden-Abyan Islamic Army
_____. Tracking Yemen's 23 Escaped Jihadi Operatives – Part 1
_____. Tracking Yemen's 23 Escaped Jihadi Operatives – Part 2
_____. Yemen's Al-Iman University: A Pipeline for Fundamentalists?
_____. Yemen's Passive Role in the War on Terrorism
Guido Olimpio -- Italy and Islamic Militancy: From Logistics Base to Potential Target
Hani Nasira -- Al-Qaeda’s Egyptian Ideologues Planning Caliphate’s Return to Egypt
_____. Reconciliation or Extremism?: Tracking the Divisions among Egypt’s Jihadi
Leaders
_____. The Role of Egyptian Militants in Developing al-Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula
Hayder Mili -- Jihad Without Rules: The Evolution of al-Takfir wa al-Hijra
Jack Barclay -- Al-Tatarrus: al-Qaeda’s Justification for Killing Muslim Civilians
_____. Anwar al-Awlaki Attacks Mardin Conference’s Declaration on Jihad
Jacob Zenn -- Boko Haram’s Growing Presence in Niger
James Brandon -- Jordan's Jihad Scholar al-Maqdisi is Freed from Prison
_____. The Next Generation of Radical Islamist Preachers in the UK
Kathryn Haahr -- Algerian Salafists and the New Face of Terrorism in Spain
_____. GSPC in Italy: The Forward Base of Jihad in Europe
_____. Italy: Europe's Emerging Platform for Islamic Extremism
Ludovico Carlino -- Are Yemen's Ansar al-Shari'a and AQAP One and the Same?
Matthew Levitt -- Zarqawi’s Jordanian Agenda
Michael W. S. Ryan -- After Bin Laden: Al-Qaeda Strategy in Yemen
_____. Al-Qaeda on Pakistan: Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri’s Morning and the Lamp
_____. Al-Qaeda’s Purpose in Yemen Described in Works of Jihad Strategists
Mohamed Redzuan Salleh and Muhammad Haniff Hassan -- The Disconnection of
Indonesia’s
Jemaah Islamiya and al-Qaeda from the Afghan Jihad Experience
Mukhtar A. Khan -- Pakistan’s Most Wanted: A Profile of Tehrik-e-Taliban Leader
Baitullah
Mahsud
Murad Batal al-Shishani -- Abu Hafs and the Future of Arab Fighters in Chechnya
_____. Abu Mus’ab al-Suri and the Third Generation of Salafi-Jihadists
_____. Al-Qaeda Ideologue Attiya Allah al-Libi Releases New Booklet Discussing
Recruitment
of Jihadis and the Use of Takfir
_____. Al-Qaeda Ideologue Describes Alleged Spread of Al-Qaeda in the Levant
_____. Al-Qaeda’s Sa’id al-Shihri Seeks to Revolutionize the Saudi Military
_____. An Assessment of the Anatomy of al-Qaeda in Yemen: Ideological and
Social Factors
_____. Bringing Shari’a Rule to Yemen and Saudi Arabia: Al-Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula’s
Post-Revolution Strategies
_____. From Egyptian Islamic Jihad to Chechnya: A Portrait of Mahmoud Hinnawi
_____. “How I Joined Jihad”: Nigerian Bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in His
Own Words
(Part One)
_____. “How I Joined Jihad”: Nigerian Bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in His
Own Words
(Part Two)
_____. Ibrahim al-Rubaish: New Religious Ideologue of al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia
Calls for
Revival of Assassination Tactic
_____. Jihad Ideologue Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi Challenges Jordan’s NeoZarqawists
_____. Jihad in Syria: A Profile of Jabhat al-Nusra
_____. Jihadis Turn their Eyes to Syria as a Post-Iraq Theater of Operations
_____. Jordan’s New Generation of Salafi-Jihadists Take to the Streets to Demand
Rule by
Shari’a
_____. Journal of the Turkistan Islamic Party Urges Jihad in China
_____. Neo-Zarqawists Target the Arab Christians of Jordan
_____. Salafi-Jihadis in Mauritania at the Center of al-Qaeda's Strategy
_____. Salafist Ideologue’s Book Urges the Tribes of Yemen to Join al-Qaeda in the
Arabian
Peninsula
_____. Taking al-Qaeda’s Jihad to Facebook
_____. The Concept of Safe Havens in Salafi-Jihadi Strategy
_____. The New Ideologues of the North Caucasus Jihadists
_____. The Radical Source for Non-Arabic Speaking Muslims: Anwar al-Awlaki
_____. The Salafi-Jihadist Movement in Iraq: Recruitment Methods and Arab
Volunteers
_____. Understanding Strategic Change in al-Qaeda’s Central Leadership after Bin
Laden
Pascale Combelles Siegel -- Radical Islam and the French Muslim Prison Population
Raffaello Pantucci -- Abu Qatada’s Comfortable British Jihad
_____. American Jihad: New Details Emerge About al-Shabaab Recruitment in
North America
_____. Bekkay Harrach: The Face of German Terror
Rafid Fadhil Ali -- Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's Growing War with North
Yemen's
Houthist Movement
_____. The Jihadis and the Cause of South Yemen: A Profile of Tariq al-Fadhli
Sami Moubayed -- The History of Political and Militant Islam in Syria
Sara Daly -- The Algerian Salafist Group for Call and Combat: A Dossier
Stephen Schwartz -- Islamic Extremism on the Rise in Nigeria
_____. Wahhabism and al-Qaeda in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Stephen Ulph -- A New Journal For Algerian Jihad
Sunguta West -- Somalia's ICU and its Roots in al-Ittihad al-Islami
The AfPak Channel
Christopher Anzalone -- Inside al-Qaeda's Charismatic Jihadi Vanguard
_____. New kid on the block: An al-Qaeda leader ascends
_____. The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan: Down but not out
_____. The TTP's Transnational Jihadi Propaganda
_____. What the Death of "Sheikh Atiyyatullah" Means for Al-Qaeda
Christopher Anzalone and Bruno-Olivier Bureau -- Death of an Ideologue
Don Rassler and Vahid Brown -- How the Haqqani Network Helped Fuel the Rise of
Al-Qaeda
Jarret Brachman -- A Unifying Force Lost
Steven Brooke -- Bin Laden's Commitment to the Covenant
The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence
Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens -- As American as Apple Pie- How Anwar al-Awlaki
Became the
Face of Western Jihad
Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, Shiraz Maher, and James Sheehan -- Lights,
Camera, JihadAl-Shabaab’s Western Media Strategy
Catherine Zara Raymond -- Al Muhajiroun and Islam4UK- The group behind the ban
Jonathan Bronitsky -- British foreign policy and Bosnia- The rise of Islamism in
Britain,
1992—1995
Lorenzo Vidino and James Brandon -- Countering Radicalization in Europe
Shiraz Maher & Peter R Neumann -- Al-Qaeda at the Crossroads- How the terror
group is
responding to the loss of its leaders & the Arab Spring
The Middle East Channel
Geneive Abdo -- Lebanon's Salafi Scare
Omar Ashour -- Egypt’s Democratic Jihadists
_____. Ex-Jihadists in the New Libya
_____. Jihadists and Post-Jihadists in the Sinai
Stéphane Lacroix -- Osama Bin Laden And The Saudi Muslim Brotherhood
Will McCants -- A New Salafi Politics
The Middle East Institute
Jacques Roussellie -- Terrorism in North Africa and the Sahel- AlQa‘ida’s Franchise or
Freelance?
The New Yorker
Lawrence Wright -- The Man Behind Bin Laden- How an Egyptian doctor became a
master of
terror
Think Africa Press
Andrew Lebovich -- Northern Mali- the Politics of Ethnicity and Locality
UK Government
Noémie Bouhana and Per-Olof H. Wikstrom -- al-Qa'ida-Influenced Radicalisation- A
Rapid
Evidence Assessment Guided By Situational Action Theory
Understanding vulnerability and resilience in individuals to the inuence of Al Qa’ida
violent
extremism- A Rapid Evidence Assessment to inform policy Occasional
Paper 98 and
practice in preventing violent extremism
United State Institute of Peace
Andrew Walker -- What Is Boko Haram?
Colonel John M. ”Matt” Venhaus -- Why Youth Join al-Qaeda
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Deterred but Determined Salafi-Jihadi Groups in the Palestinian Arena
Michael Jacobson -- Terrorist Dropouts Learning from Those Who Have Left
Blogs (check their archives)
al-Wasat: http://thewasat.wordpress.com/
All Things Counterterrorism: http://allthingsct.wordpress.com/
IntelWire: http://intelwire.egoplex.com/
Internet Haganah: http://internet-haganah.com/haganah/index.html
Jarret Brachman: http://jarretbrachman.net/
Jih@d: http://ojihad.wordpress.com/
Jihadica: http://www.jihadica.com/
Lawfare: http://www.lawfareblog.com/
Making Sense of Jihad: http://www.makingsenseofjihad.com/
Sahel Blog: http://sahelblog.wordpress.com/
Selected Wisdom: http://selectedwisdom.com/
The Moor Next Door: http://themoornextdoor.wordpress.com/
Views from the Occident: http://occident.blogspot.com/
Waq al-Waq: http://bigthink.com/blogs/waq-al-waq