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Islamist Networks: The Afghan-Pakistan Connection (The CERI Series in Comparative Politics...
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Islamist Networks: The Afghan-Pakistan Connection (The CERI Series in Comparative Politics...
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by Mariam Abou Zahab and Olivier Roy
Sales Rank : 489454
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Paperback: 92 pages
Publisher: Columbia University Press September 22, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0231133650
ISBN-13: 978-0231133654
Product Dimensions:
7.9 x 5.2 x 0.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
Product Review
"Tackling historical complexities and scholarly references to illuminate cultural and religious motivations, Mariam Abou Zahab and Olivier Roy create a blow-by-blow account of jihadist movements and their relationship with American and secular power." -- Middle East Journal
"This work is a gold mine for insights into the little-understood world of Islamist ideologies." -- Caleb M. Bartley, University of Reading, Comparative Strategy
"[Islamist Networks is] interested not in grand ideas but in the details of Al-Qaeda's recruitment and support networks … [using] biographies of individual terrorists and obscure Al-Qaeda-linked groups to explain the movement's evolving structure. By this path the authors challenge some poorly examined assumptions of familiar public debates." -- Steve Coll, Washington Post Book World
"This excellent study will serve as a valuable reference book to those interested in radical Islamic Movements Highly recommended." -- Choice
Product Description
Al-Qaeda was unable to realize its lethal potential until it found sanctuary in Afghanistan, where Osama bin Laden fled after being expelled from Sudan. But why wasn't Al-Qaeda attacked before September 2001? Mariam Abou Zahab and Olivier Roy argue that the Taliban in Afghanistan was part of a much wider radical Islamist network in the region, whose true center was Pakistan. Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, the Pakistani Deobandis-all of these groups are based in Pakistan, which continues to serve as the regional hub for Islamist movements and their terrorist offshoots.
In this critically acclaimed book, Abou Zahab and Roy investigate the almost twenty-five-year gestation of these interlinked radical Islamist networks of Pakistan, Central Asia, and Afghanistan. Taking into account the networks' divergent histories and doctrinal rifts, Abou Zahab and Roy lay bare the political contingencies that enabled these disparate Islamist movements to coordinate with the aim of attacking what would become their common adversary: the United States.
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