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The caravan

Hardcover • 2020 • English • 1. edition

The caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the rise of global jihad

By Thomas Hegghammer

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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 ...Show more

Biography: religious and spiritual
Social groups: religious groups and communities
Middle Eastern history

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ISBN

9780521765954

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

2020

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The caravan

Format

Hardcover

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