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"Despite the frequent appearances of Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri on television screens worldwide, Al Qaeda remains an elusive entity. As the world has grown increasingly familiar with the spectacle of Islamist terrorism, Al Qaeda's essential worldview has remained be-wilderingly opaque. To reveal its inner workings, Gilles Kepel and his collaborators, all scholars of Arabic and Islam, have collected and brilliantly annotated key texts of the major figures from whom the movement has drawn its beliefs and direction. The resulting volume offers an unprecedented glimpse into the assumptions of the Salafist jihadists who have reshaped political life at the beginning of the third millennium."--Jacket. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The introductory material on each of the authors was a decent set of histories, but all of the info could be found in more detail in other sources. The end notes were good, and I highly recommend they be read as the reader proceeds through the text.
What would have made this book better? I'm not sure. Perhaps my expectations were too high. Perhaps the book would have been better if the introductory material also included discussion of the context and some interpretation of the presented material. I suspect the ideas presented here are not mainstream Islam, and so perhaps counterpoint arguments should have been presented. In the end, it seemed like something more needed to be added to round out the work. (