Jihadi Culture Edited by Thomas Hegghammer Index More Information

Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-01795-5 — Jihadi Culture Edited by Thomas Hegghammer Index More Information

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a cappella singing, 46–47, 63, 69 history of, 43–45 Abbasid Revolution, 90 importance of, 42 Abbottabad, 22–23 interpersonal bonding from, Abd al-Ghafur, 159 76–77 Al-Abdurrahman, Shaykh, 149 by IS, 53–54, 60–62 ablution, 182–183 about jihad, 43, 58, 73–79, 113 Abraham (prophet), 131, 133 jihadi history of, 65–69 Abu Abd al-Malik, 52–53 jihadi media on, 43 Abu Ali, 52–53 on jihadi websites, 52 Abu Dhabi, 27 jihadis on, 47–48, 73–79 Abu Hudhayfa, 16, 49–50 lawfulness of, 45–48, 65 Abu al-Joud, 68 in Malaysia, 66–67 Abu Malik, 79 martyrdom and, 166 Abu Ratib, 68, 71 musicological examination of, Abu Zahra, Muhammad, 45–47 69–73, 81 al-Adani, Umar, 191–192 production of, 51–53 adhan,64 from al-Qaida, 77, 81 Adobe Premiere Pro, 115 recording of, 73 advertising industry, 82 as recreational practice, 188 al-Afghani, Abu Maryam, 156 recruitment with, 17, 68–69 Afghanistan, 32–33, 141, 167–168, requirements for, 46–47 179 rhythm of, 70, 74 Afghan-Soviet war, 109 topics of, 55, 59 Africa, 11, 168 utility of, 48–51, 62 afterlife, 8 in videos, 113 Ahwaz, 33 Anashid al-da‘wa al-islamiyya (Anashid air travel, 10–11 of the Islamic Call), 52 Ajnad, 42–43 Al-Andalusi, Suraqah, 111–112 Alagha, Joseph, 3 Ansar al-Mujahidin, 97, 104 al-Albani, Nasir al-Din, 46–47 The Anthology of Glory (Diwan Algakh, Hisham, 27 al-‘izza), 36–39 Ali, Muhammad, 46 anti-Mubarak protests, 91 al-Almani, Abu Musa, 110 AQAP. See al-Qaida in the Arabian Ambush at Bardal (2009), 124 Peninsula American Hell in Afghanistan and Iraq AQI. See Al-Qaida in Iraq (2003), 116 AQIM. See Al-Qaida in the Islamic al-Amriki, Mansoor, 123–124 Maghreb anashid,6–7, 10, 14, 18 al-Aqsa Intifada, 116–117 aspects of, 18 Arab League, 32–33 Harun on, 188–189 Arab Spring, 27, 74–75, 91

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The Arab Supporters in Afghanistan Berg, Nicholas, 120 (1988), 109–110 al-Berry, Khalid, 184–186 Arabic culture, classical period, 26–27 on beards, 195 Arab-Israeli War, 67–68 soccer played by, 194 Arif, Ihsan Hammu Siddiq, 157 on spitting to the left, 187 Asia, 11 on videos, 190 al-Assad, Bashar, 24–25 Bilal, 144–145 Atef, Mohammed, 142 bin Abd Allah al-Ali, 32 Augustine of Hippo, 65, 78–79 bin Abdullah, Sulaiman, 46 austerity, 11–12 bin Ladin, Usama, 16, 49–50, 53, autodidacts, 35–36 95–96, 128 al-Awlaqi, Anwar, 16–17, 42 Abu Malik praises of, 79 awliya’, 164 death of, 22–23 Al Awshan, Isa bin Sa‘d, 36–39 dream interpretation by, 137, 139, Ayat al-rahman ﬁ jihad al-afghan 142–143 (Azzam), 157–158 fasting of, 186–187 Ayyash, Yahya, 162 homage to, 104 Azzam, Abdallah, 110, 153 poetry of, 22, 29–32 martyrology developed by, 154–160, prayer by, 180 169 bin Ladin, Hamza, 29–30 obituaries of, 162–163 bin Malik, Ka‘b, 29 Azzam Publications, 111 bin al-Shibh, Ramzi, 128 Azzam.com, 112 al-Bin‘ali, Turki, 23, 34 Black Banners Studios, 110 “Bada’a al-masiru ila al-hadaf” black ﬂags, 87–93, 95 (The March to Victory Has Blakstone, 63 Begun), 57 The Blaze of Truth (Uwar al-haqq) Badr, Qari Badruzzaman, 147–148 (Al-Nasr), 23–25, 33 Badr al-Riyadh, 53, 116, 118 The Blessed Dinsur Battle (2008), al-Bagha, Iman Mustafa, 24–25 123 al-Baghdadi, Abu Bakr, 23, 25, 32, 54, Boko Haram, 9–11, 13, 168 91, 137 Bosnia, 15, 112, 156, 184 al-Bahlul, Ali Hamza, 114–115 The Bouchaoui Attack (2007), 117 Bahrain, 34 Bourti, Karim, 182, 184 al-Bahri, Nasir, 186, 190, 198–199 Breaking the Silence (2015), 76–77 Baily, John, 68 Breininger, Erich, 186–187 Baluch activists, 103 al-Bukhari, 134–135 Basayev, Shamil, 99 al-Bustani, Fouad Ephreim, 43–44 Battle of Badr, 132 Battle of Uhud, 152 Calvin, John, 65 The Battles of Badr in Bosnia (1995), Care International, 111 112–113 cassettes, 67–68 bay‘a (pledging of allegiance), 198–199 Caucasus Jihad, 91–92 al-bayan,29 Chechnya, 113–114 beards, 195 Chechnya: Destruction of a Nation The Beginning of the End: A Response (1999), 113 to Barack Obama (2009), 124 children, 48 beheading, 8, 61–62, 117, 120 chivalry, 35 al-Benin, Masood, 110–111 Christian chant, 64 Berg, Birgit, 66 cigarettes, 197–198

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classical period, 26–27 by bin Ladin, 137, 139, 142–143 CNN, 163–164 formal framework for, 137 Combating Terrorism Center at West Freudian theory of, 141 Point, 83 importance of, 128–129 Confessions (Augustine), 65, 78–79 by jihadis, 149–150 Cook, David, 19, 146 modern practice of, 138–139 corpses, 157, 162 by Muhammad, 134 Corrie, Rachel, 162 by Omar, 137 counternarratives, 18 propaganda from, 140 A Course in the Art of Recruiting prophesy from, 138 (al-Qa‘idi), 50 in Qur’an, 131–133, 143 court documents, 174 recreational practice of, 192–193 Cozzens, Jeffrey, 4 by Reid, 144 Creswell, Robyn, 18 social practice of, 142 Crone, Manni, 3–4 traditions of, 135 utility of, 138 Dabiq,40 warfare guidance from, 141 “Dafatir ‘ala Hawamish al-Naksa” dream manuals, 135–138, 148–149 (Qabbani), 54 dreams, 128, 149–150 dance, 10, 198 of Hammami, 193 Dantshke, Claudia, 16 influence of, 143 Day of Resurrection, 153, 161 in IS, 148 De Looijer, Gwynned, 19 in Islam, 129–130 Deir al-Zor, 24 of martyrdom, 146 “A Denunciation of Nationality” Muhammad discussion of, 129, (al-Bin‘ali), 34 133–134, 144–145 Deso Dogg, 79 of Omar, 141–142 The Destruction of the American paradise imagery in, 145, 147 Destroyer USS Cole, 114–115 prophetic wisdom from, 134 devotional practice, 178–188 in Qur’an, 130–133 ablution as, 182–183 in Sufism, 149 exorcism as, 187–188 types of, 130, 144 fasting as, 186–187 utility of, 144 invocations, 181–182 dress and grooming, 195, 198 prayer as, 178–180 al-Durrah, Moha‘mmed, 116–117 Qur’an recitation as, 183–185 weeping as, 185–186 East Africa Embassy bombings, 115 “Diary of a Mujahid,” 197 Egyptian Islamic Jihad, 9–11 Dighlas, Abu Ubayda Abd al-Hadi, elegies, 24, 32 164–165 embassy, U.S., 50–51 Diraz, Izzam, 109–110 Encyclopaedia of the Martyrs of the “Dirty Kuffar,” 63 Islamic Movement (Mawsuàt divine intervention, 133 shuhada’ al-haraka al-Islamiyya), Diwan al-‘izza (The Anthology of 162–163 Glory),36–39 “Epistle to the Scolders” (Al Awshan), Doctors without Borders, 33 36–38 doctrine, 8–9, 16 execution, 8, 114, 124 Donahue, Katherine C., 144 exorcism, 187–188 dream interpretation, 7–8, 19, 135, 150 The Expedition of Shaykh Umar Hadid authority in, 138 (2006), 121–122

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Farmer, Henry George, 44, 66 Hadid, Marwan, 31 fasting, 186–187 hadith, 133–134, 152, 194 Fatah al-Islam, 4, 67–68 Hafez, Mohammed M., 145 Fatih, Bahraini Muhammad, 193 Hallundbæk, Lars, 4 festivities, 194 Hamas, 6, 9, 100, 162–163 “Fi kull ard li’l-Ilahi fawaris” (In Every dress of, 195 Land God Has Knights), 58 emblem of, 87–88 al-Filistini, Abu Qatada, 111 martyrdom testaments in, 117–118 filmmaking, 1–3, 19 recruitment by, 68–69 Fisk, Robert, 128 Hammami, Omar, 123–124, 185 flags, 86 dreams of, 193 black, 87–93, 95 on pledge ceremonies, 198–199 of IS, 87–91 at training camp, 188–189 of jihadi groups, 91–93 Hamori, Andras, 37 of al-Qaida, 88 Hanif, Umar, 158 of Saudi Arabia, 88–90 Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahidin, 85 symbolism of, 88 al-Harath, Jaram, 148 Flames of War: Fighting Has Just Begun Harun, Fadil, 48, 50–51, 180 (2014), 125 on anashid, 188–189 Foreign Affairs,22–23 on exorcism, 187 Fouda, Yosri, 128, 140 poetry by, 190 Four Feathers Club, 111 on recitation, 183–184 Fowler, Robert, 183, 191, 193, 197 remembrance by, 181 Free Syrian Army, 100 Haykel, Bernard, 18 Freudian theory, 141 Hell of the Apostates in Somalia (2006), Al-Furqan, 119–120 123 Herding, Maruta, 3–4 Gauvain, Richard, 183 Herr, Cheryl, 3 Genis, Daniel, 20–21 Hezbollah, 9–10, 84–85, 87–88, 161 Ghaddafi, Muammar, 74–75 Hilal, Hissa, 27 Gharib, 104–105 Homer, 44 al-Gharib, Abu Usama, 23, 30–31 horse imagery, 95–96, 159 al-Ghazali, Muhammad, 45–47, 185 houris, 153, 157 Ghazi, Sheikh Abdul Aziz, 147 Hudaybiyya, Treaty of, 132 al-Ghul, Imran Umar, 162–163 al-Husayn, 160–161 Ghunaym, Mahmud, 28 Gilsenan, Michael, 139 ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Muhammad, Global Islamic Media Front, 97 46–47 Golden Age of Islam, 90 ibn Abdallah, Jabir, 144–145 graphic design, 104–105 Ibn Abi al-Dunya, 146 grief, 161 Ibn Ahmad, Khalaf, 136 Groupe Islamique Armée, 9–10 Ibn Baz, 46–47 Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et Ibn Jannat Jal, 158–159 le Combat (GSPC), 117 Ibn Khattab, 99–100, 114, 121 Gruen, Madeleine, 76 Ibn Manzur, 43 GSPC. See Groupe Salafiste pour la Ibn al-Musayyab, 137 Prédication et le Combat Ibn al-Nahhas al-Dumyati, 153–154 Guantanamo Bay, 114–115, 147–148 Ibn Qutayba, 136–138 guerrilla warfare, 174 Ibn Sirin, 136–137 guns, 7–8 Ibn Taymiyya, 168–169

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iconography, 3, 18 Islamic State (IS), 8, 10–12, 42–43 Id al-Fitr, 194 anashid by, 53–54, 60–62 identity-marking practices, 177–178, Caliphate of, 34 194–195 dreams in, 148 dress and grooming as, 195–196 flag of, 87–91 manners as, 197 military campaigns by, 28 noms de guerre as, 196 poetess of, 23–25 slogans as, 196 video production of, 109, ideology, 2–3 125–126 IED. See Improvised Explosive Device Isra, 132 Ilhaq bi’l-qafila (al-Zarqawi), 164–165 Israel, 6, 32–33, 116–117 Iliad (Homer), 44 istishhad (martyrdom-seeking), 59–60 immolation, 39–40 Improvised Explosive Device (IED), jahiliyya,44 118–119 Jama‘a Islamiyya, 180, 183, 194 “In Every Land God Has Knights” manners of, 197 (Fi kull ard li’l-Ilahi fawaris), 58 weeping among, 185–186 inshad,43–45 Jamaat-ud-Dawa, 86 insignia, 87 al-Jami‘ al-Sahih (al-Tirmidhi), 153 Inspire (magazine), 101–102 Jarrah, Ziad, 117–118 intelligence services, 15–16 Jaysh-e Muhammad, 86 intercession, 154 al-Jazeera, 163–164 Internet, 11, 74–75 Jewish extremists, 13 AQI campaign on, 118–120 jihad Iraqi groups presence on, 118–119 anashid about, 43, 58, 73–79, 113 martyrdom videos on, 112, 164 contractual basis of, 152 interrogation transcripts, 174 defences of, 36 “Intifadat al-Aqsa,” 162 poetry of, 27–29, 35 Inventing the Muslim Cool (Herding), rap about, 124 3–4 salvational brand of, 155 invocations al-Jihad (journal), 155 prayer difference from, 181 Jihad in Dagestan (1999), 113 remembrance as, 181 Jihadi Culture on the World Wide Web before suicide attacks, 181 (Ramsey), 4 supplication as, 181–182 jihadi groups, 9–13 Iran, 151, 161 flags of, 91–93 Iran-Iraq War, 161 music relationship to, 63 Iraq, 34, 165 online lives of, 12, 31 Iraq war, 102–103, 118–122, 164 jihadi videos al-Iraqi, Abu Asim, 159 from AQI, 120–121 IS. See Islamic State from Chechnya, 113–114 Ishmael, 131 content of, 112–114 Islam distribution of, 111–112 discussion forums on, 74 Iraq war and, 118–122 dreams in, 129–130 media cells for, 120 flags of, 92–93 origins of, 109–110 history of, 7–8 as propaganda, 108 law of, 45–46 jihadi wedding, 16 Islamic Jihad, 162–163 jihadis, 31–32, 37, 75 Islamic Maghreb, 9–10 on anashid,47–48, 73–79

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dream interpretation by, 149–150 madih al-nabawi,71 emotional life of, 200 Mahmoud, Muhammad, 23 faith of, 199–200 mahraqat, 114 orthodoxy of, 200 Maktabah al-Ansar, 111 self alienation of, 30–31 Malaysia, 66–67 teenage, 183 “Al-Maliki Ghada Maqhura” (Al-Maliki jihadism Has Been Vanquished), 61 aesthetic universe of, 2 The Manhattan Raid (2006), 117 cultural dimension of, 1–2, 4–9 manners, 197 explanation for, 14 maqamat,69–72 romance of, 35 al-Maqdisi, Abu Muhammad, 31, 40 Jihadwal training camp, 179 “The March to Victory Has Begun Jundallah, 96, 103 (Bada’a al-Masiru ila al-Hadaf),” 57 al-Kabili, Abu al-Zubayr, 186 marriage, 154, 156, 162 Kachins, 5 The Martyr Mohammed Aldura Street, Kasasbeh, Mu’az, 39 116–117 Kashmir, 86 martyrdom, 59–60, 102, 145, 151, 160, Kata’ib Hizballah, 85 165, 167–168, 193 Kendall, Elisabeth, 3 anashid and, 166 al-Khallal, 136 Azzam development of, 154–160, al-Khansa’ Brigades, 25, 40 169 Khurshid, Hammad, 189 classical meaning of, 151–152 al-Kifah Refugee Center, 111 dreams of, 146 Kinberg, Leah, 134–135, 144, 146 Hamas testaments of, 117–118 Koranic recitations, 72 Internet videos of, 112, 164 Ku Klux Klan, 200 material process of, 151, 169–170 Kulthum, Umm, 46–47 mythology of, 153, 163–164 Kuwait, 91 in Pakistan, 167–168 al-Kuwaiti, Abu Hamza, 145 in Shi’ism, 160–161 al-Kuwaiti, Abu Muadh, 146, 157 Somalian operations of, 168 in Sunnism, 161 Lahoud, Nelly, 18, 72 weeping and, 186 Lal Masjid, 167 martyrdom-seeking (istishhad), 59–60 Leach, Edmund, 5 martyrs, 19, 98–100, 121 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Martyrs of Bosnia, 111–112, 190 (LTTE), 85 Martyrs of the Confrontations (2003), lion imagery, 98–99 116 “The Lion’s Den” (al-Ma’sada), 29 martyr’s wedding, 6–7, 199 Lions of the War (2005), 121 al-Ma’sada (“The Lion’s Den”), 29 Lisan al-‘Arab (Ibn Manzur), 43 al-Masri, Abu’l-Hassan, 139 “Lovers of Hoor” (video), 168 Massacres in Chechnya (1999), 113 Lovers of Martyrdom (Azzam), Matusky, Patricia, 66–67, 71 110 Mawsu‘at shuhada’ al-haraka al- LTTE. See Liberation Tigers of Tamil islamiyya (Encyclopaedia of the Eelam Martyrs of the Islamic Movement), Luqman, Umm, 48 162–163 McCants, Will, 90 ma‘ al-shuhada’, 155 Mecca, 132, 178 al-Madani, Abu Zubayr, 112 Mehanna, Tarek, 121

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microtonal intervals, 70 Nairobi, 50–51 Militant Imagery Project, 83 Nasiri, Omar, 191–192, 196 military, U.S., 49 al-Nasr, Ahlam, 23–25, 28, 33, 35, military campaigns, 28 39–41 military life, soft dimension of, 1–2, nation-states, 32–35 4–5 Nazi Germany, 108 Millionaire Poet (Sha‘ir al-milyun), 27 neo-Nazis, 13 Minbar al-tawhid wa-l-jihad The News International, 141 (al-Maqdisi), 31, 47, 94 9/11 hijacker letter, 145, 182 miracles, 158 The Nineteen Martyrs (2002), 116 Mir‘aj, 132 Nobel Prize in Literature, 27 al-Misri, Abu Hafs, 50 noms de guerre, 196 Mittermaier, Amira, 140 Northern Ireland, 3 monorhyme, 23–24 Nusra Front, 90–91, 95–96 Monotheism and Jihad, 118–119 “Mother, Quit Crying” (Ummahu “O My Umma: Fighting is Now an khalli al-dam‘a), 59–60 Obligation” (Ya Ummati Wajaba Moussaoui, Zacarias, 142–143 al-Kifah), 53 “MTV jihadism,” 123–124 Omar, Mullah, 128, 137, 141–142 Mu’assasat al-furqan li’l-intaj al-i‘lami, online discussions, 74 54 oral traditions, 135–136 mu’aththirat,47 organizational identities, 83–87 Muhammad (Prophet), 71 Ostovar, Afshon, 3, 19 authority of, 131–132 Otterbeck, Jonas, 68–69 dream interpretation by, 134 Ottoman Empire, 46, 100 dreams discussed by, 129, 133–134, Oxford English Dictionary,5 144–145 dress of, 195 Pakistan, 4, 167–168 Muhammed, Khalid Sheikh, 114 Palestine, 116–117, 162 Mujahidin (Afghan), 68, 93–98, Palestinian Second Intifada, 162–163 112–113 paradise imagery, 101–104, 145, 147 music of, 76–77 Pattani, 33 Qur’an recitation by, 179 Pearl, Daniel, 117 The Mujahidin Brigade, 112–113 Philby, H. St. John, 46 Munkar and Nakir, 153 Pieslak, Jonathan, 3 munshid,44 Plato, 62 Musharraf, Pervez, 147 pledging of allegiance (bay‘a), 198–199 music, 1–3, 10, 18 Plett, Barbara, 147 consumption of, 67 “Poet of the People” (Sha‘ir al-Milyun), history of, 78 27 jihadi relationship to, 63 poetry, 2–4, 6–7, 18 legal status of, 63–65 of bin Ladin, 22, 29–32 of Mujahidin, 76–77 by Harun, 190 Music in Everyday Life (DeNora), 75 history of, 26–27 The Music of Malaysia (Matusky and importance of, 22 Tan), 66 as recreational practice, 189–190 musical instruments, 46, 64, 197–198 role of, 22 Muslim Brotherhood, 9, 46–47, 53, political imagery, 83–84 162–163, 198 political posters, 84 My Brother the Islamist (2011), 197 prayer, 178–180

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bin Ladin practice of, 180 recitation of, 50, 183–185 invocations difference from, 181 Qusi (Shaykh), 140 weeping during, 185 Qutb, Amina, 52 prison scars, 21 Qutb, Muhammad, 47 propaganda, 8, 10–11, 16, 50, 126 Qutb, Sayyid, 31, 46–47, 52 dream interpretation as, 140 imagery as, 82 Racy, Ali Jihad, 70–71 on Internet, 74–75 radicalization, 18 by IS, 125 Ramadan, 180, 184, 186 jihadi videos as, 108 Ramsey, Gilbert, 4, 12 paradise imagery in, 102–103 al-Rantisi, Abd al-Aziz, 162 themes of, 83 Raqqa, 25, 39–41 videos for, 34, 173, 190–191 al-Rasas, Azifat, 47 Protestant Reformation, 36 Razeq, Abdul, 190, 193 The Punisher (ﬁctional character), 97–98 rebel groups, 6 recording technology, 72–73 Qabbani, Nizar, 54 recreational practice, 177–178 al-Qaida, 3–4, 8–10, 34 anashid as, 188 allegiance to, 38 dream interpretation as, 192–193 anashid from, 77, 81 festivities as, 194 ﬂags of, 88 poetry as, 189–190 internal document of, 42 sports as, 194 media cells of, 120 storytelling as, 191–192 media from, 47 video watching as, 190–191 non-participant observation of, recruitment, 15–16, 108 171–172 with anashid, 17, 68–69 pledging of allegiance to, 198–199 by Hamas, 68–69 recruitment to, 75–76 to al-Qaida, 75–76 Al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI) Red Mosque, 147 Internet campaign of, 118–120 Redacted (2007), 80 videos from, 120–121 Reid, Richard, 142–144 al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula remembrance, 181 (AQAP), 87–88, 90–91 Republic (Plato), 62 Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb ribat,34 (AQIM), 183 Rih al-janna (Winds of Paradise), 50 al-Qa‘idi, Abu Amru, 50 Rishawi, Sajida, 156 al-Qandahari, Abu Ja‘far al-Masri, 20 al-Riyyashi, Ra’im, 162–163 Qanita, Muhammad Ahmad, 100–101 Robson, James, 65 al-Qaradawi, Yusuf, 46–47, 53 al-Rumaysa, 144–145 Qariban, qariban, tarawna al-‘ajiba rural base, 11–12, 174–177 (Soon, Soon, You Shall 61–62 See Russian Hell in the Year 2000,113–114, Something Wondrous) 116, 123 Al-Qassam Brigade of Hamas, 100 al-Qatari, Abu Zayd, 157 safe house, 11–12, 174–177 Qoqaz.net, 113 Sageman, Marc, 16 Qur’an, 26, 44, 101 al-Sahab, 47, 50, 53, 78, 115 combat recitation, 184 early productions of, 114–118 dream interpretation in, 131–133, 143 goals of, 118 dreams in, 130–133 innovations by, 116–117 Mujahidin recitation of, 179 protagonists in, 126

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sahaba, 164 sports, 194 al-Sa‘idi, Muhannad, 119–120 hadith encouragement of, 194 Salafi-jihadism, 151, 168 soccer, 194 salafism, 3–4, 9–12, 149, 157–158, state building, 43, 60–62 169, 200–201 State of the Umma, 114–115 Salim, Mamdouh Mahmud, 115 “Statement of the World Islamic Front Al-Salman, Shaykh, 149 for Jihad against Jews and sama‘,45 Crusaders” (al-Qaida), 8 Satan, 187 Stenersen, Anne, 19 Saudi Arabia, 88–90 Stern, Jessica, 4 Ministry of Information in, 52–53 storytelling, 191–192 al-Qaida in, 11 Sudan, 32–33 sheikhs in, 27 Sufism, 19, 149, 157–158, 164, 169, Sawt al-Jihad,36 185 Sawt al-Yaman,52–53 dreams in, 149 Sawyer, Diane, 27 influence of, 200–201 Sayigh, Yezid, 67–68 suicide attacks, 156, 167 Sayyaf, Abd Rabb al-Rasul, 109–110 in Africa, 168 scolders, 37–38 behavior before, 173 Second Chechen War, 110–111, 113 invocations before, 181 Sen, Ibrahim, 148 targets of, 167–168 Sepah-e Sahabah-e Iran, 91–92 suicide bombers, 50–51, 121, sexuality, 145, 183, 197–198 126–127 al-Shabab, 20, 87–88, 122–124 Sunday Times, 145 Shabakat al-Mujahidin al-Iliktruniyya Sunnism, 9, 151, 155, 161, 178 (website), 55 supplication, 181–182 Sha‘ir al-Milyun (“Millionaire Poet”), Sura 37:105, 131 27 Surah of the Poets, 26 al-Shami, Abu Anas, 164–165 al-Suwaylim, Samir Salih Abdallah, al-Shami, Abu Usama, 47–48 99–100 Sharia Law, 141, 164 Sykes-Picot agreement, 32 al-Sharqi, Abu Dujana, 68, 187 Syria, 8, 32–33 Shehata, Salih, 162 Syrian civil war, 12 Shi’ism, 9, 151, 160–161 Shiloah, Amnon, 66 Taarnby, Michael, 4 shoe bombs, 143–144 tabl khanah,65 al-Sifaoui, Mohamed, 184 tahdid,55–57 signaling theory, 14–15 tahrid,55–57 Sipah-e Sahaba, 86 al-Tajdid,53 Sirriyeh, Elizabeth, 146 takbir, 196 slogans, 196 Talhah, Aboo, 144–145 soccer, 194 Taliban, 69, 87 social media, 31 Tan Sooi Beng, 66–67, 71 Solomon, 44 taranas,69 The Solution (Azzam), 110 tarawih, 180 al-Somali, Muhammad Ali, 155–156 tawhid,47 Song of Songs (Solomon), 44 al-Tawhid wa’l-Jihad, 91–92, 100 “Soon, Soon, You Shall 61–62 See technological change, 10–11, 119 Something Wondrous” (Qariban, terrorist chic, 3 Qariban, Tarawna al-’Ajiba), theater, 198

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theology, 3, 35–39 Wahhabism, 46–47 time, 10–11 al-wala’ wa’l-bara’, 168–169 al-Tirmidhi, 153 warfare, 141 Touma, Habib, 69–70 wedding ceremonies, 49 Tracts on Listening to Music (Robson), weeping, 13–14, 19 65 commonality of, 185 Treaty of Hudaybiyya, 132 among Jama‘a Islamiyya, 185–186 Triumph of the Will (1935), 108 martyrdom and, 186 trustworthiness, 15–16 during prayer, 185 Tsouli, Yunus, 119 Weimann, Gabriel, 76 al-Tunsi, Mohibb al-Shaykhain, 119 The West and The Dark Tunnel (video), al-Turki, Adib Sa‘di Dhu al-Qarnayn, 72, 77 156 Western culture, 74–75 White House, 143 Uighurs, 13 The Wills of the Heroic Martyrs of the Uka, Arid, 79–80 Two Holy Cities (2003), 116 Ummah.com, 74 Winds of Paradise (Rih al-Janna), 50 “Ummahu khalli al-dam‘a” (Mother, The Winds of Victory (2004), 120–121 Quit Crying), 59–60 women, 25, 40, 156 Unshudat al-Shuhada’,52 World Trade Center attacks, 29 Urdu, 13 World War One, 32 USS Cole video (2000), 115–117 Uthaymin, Ibn, 46–47 Ya Ummati Wajaba al-Kifah (O My Uwar al-haqq (The Blaze of Truth) Umma: Fighting is Now an (Al-Nasr), 23–25, 33 Obligation), 53 al-Yamani, Abu Mansur, 188–189 vetting, 14–15 Yarmuk Magazine, 91–92 visual culture, 19, 84, 106–107 Yassin, Ahmad, 162 evolution of, 104 Youtube, 108 horse imagery in, 95–96 Yusufzai, Rahimullah, 128, 141–142 themes of, 82–83, 93–101 visual networks, 83 Zahab, Mariam Abou, 147 casual types of, 85 al-Zarqawi, Abu Mus‘ab, 34, 118–119, organizational identities and, 163–166 83–87 al-Zuhayri, Muhammad, 34