Inside Jihadism

Jihad is the most organized force against Western capitalism since the Soviet era. Yet jihadism is multifaceted and complex, much broader than Al Qaeda alone. This book offers an introduction to jihadism and explains how the two key movements variously influence jihadi activists.

Farhad Khosrokhavar

Introduction; Chapter 1 Explanatory Approaches to Jihadism; Chapter 2 Jihadist Ideology; Chapter 3 Jihadism: A Culture of Violence Turned into a Culture of Death; Chapter 4 The Jihadist View of Democracy; Chapter 5 Fundamentalism in Islam; Chapter 6 The Transmission of Jihad to the West; Chapter 7 Jihadist Intelligentsia around the World; Conclusion: Toward an Islam of Hope;