Explanation
In the book, al-Qaeda appears as an organization that formulates a meta-jihadist discourse, charged with religious and emotional intensity, and relies on an ambiguous strategy based on sacrificial violence. Its action is read as a rejection of the globalized world and a reconstruction of conflict at the universal level.
Referred to by
- Al-Qaeda’s strategic choice of locations
- Terrorism is not a fixed Islamic essence
- Distinguishing between suicide operations
- The response to terrorism must be limited and seek less destructive alternatives
- Sacrificial violence in al-Qaeda
- Al-Qaeda is presented as an angry and ambiguous global movement
- Bin Laden and the revolutionary Guevara
- Al-Qaeda’s angry discourse
- A meta-jihadist discourse in al-Qaeda
- Discourses of the enemy, jihad, and al-Qaeda produce transnational sacred violence
- Rejection of the globalized world
- The rise of power after bipolarity
- The need to disable the network
- An ideological reading of Islam
- From Manhattan to Baghdad links the violence of September and the war on it to a crisis of knowledge, legitimacy, and modernization
- Critique of the all-out military response