Publisher’s description Farhana Qazi draws on her background as a pioneering counterterrorism professional and a devout Muslim to offer an insider’s view of what drives girls and women to join[…]
Publisher’s description In recent years, terrorism has become closely associated with martyrdom in the minds of many terrorists and in the view of nations around the world. In Islam, martyrdom[…]
Publisher’s description In 2017, nearly six thousand people were killed in suicide attacks across the world. In The Smile of the Human Bomb, Gideon Aran dissects the moral logic of[…]
Publisher’s description Near Eastern archaeology is generally represented as a succession of empires with little attention paid to the individuals, labelled as terrorists at the time, that brought them down.[…]
Publisher’s description In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the events of 9/11, 7/7, the War on Terror and the Caliphate and atrocities of the so-called Islamic State[…]
Volume 2: Politics, Social Movements and Extremism Publisher’s description The contributions to this volume Politics, Social Movements and Extremism take serious the fact that populism is a symptom of the[…]
Publisher’s description Militancy continues to be characteristic of many supporters of the Russian far right, encompassing a belligerent rhetoric, a strong perception of participants as political warriors and often the[…]
Publisher’s description Gender and the Radical and Extreme Right takes up an important and often-overlooked across scholarship on the radical right, gender, and education. These subfields have mostly operated independent[…]
Publisher’s description The phenomenon of political Islam continues to dominate the political and social map of the Arab world, with the increasingly open struggle between ruling elites and Islamists becoming[…]
Publisher’s description This fully revised edition offers a comprehensive overview of the many theories of religion and politics and provides students with an accessible, in-depth guide to the subject’s most[…]
Confronting Apocalyptic Terrorism: Lessons from France and Japan15 February, 2019
Caribbean Taliban: Cuban American Terrorism in the 1970s13 February, 2019Testing Transitions: Extremist Prisoners Re-Entering Indonesian Society8 February, 2019
Pakistan: The Taliban, Al Qaeda, and the Rise of Terrorism6 February, 2019