TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hegghammer,Thomas
TI  - The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the rise of global jihad 
SN  - 0521759145
AV  - DS126.6. A97 H44 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Cambridge, New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - ʻAzzām, ʻAbd Allāh.
KW  - Qaida (Organization)
KW  - Jihad
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Palestinian Arabs
KW  - Biography
KW  - Muslim scholars
KW  - Jordan
KW  - Revolutionaries
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  - Soviet occupation, 1979-1989
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-681) and index
N2  - Abdallah Azzam, the Palestinian cleric who led the mobilization of Arab fighters to Afghanistan in the 1980s, played a crucial role in the internationalization of the jihadi movement. Killed in mysterious circumstances in 1989 in Peshawar, Pakistan, he remains one of the most influential jihadi ideologies of all time. Here, in the first in-depth biography of Azzam, Thomas Hegghammer explains how Azzam came to play this role and why jihadism went global at this particular time. It traces Azzam's extraordinary life journey from a West Bank village to the battlefields of Afghanistan, telling the story of a man who knew all the leading Islamists of his time and frequented presidents, CIA agents, and Cat Stevens the pop star. It is, however, also a story of displacement, exclusion, and repression that suggests that jihadism went global for fundamentally local reasons
ER  -