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Paradigmatic Jihadi Movements

PARADIGMATIC JIHADI MOVEMENTS

In January 2005, senior jihadi theorist, publicist, and historian Abu Musab al-Suri published Dawat al-muqawama al-Islamiyya al-alamiyya, a 1,600-page study on the jihadi movement (The Call for Global Islamic Resistance).

 Suri hoped that by publishing this book, future generations of jihadi fighters, philosophers, and activists would be inspired to create a comprehensive jihadi curriculum that would allow them to learn from the failures and accomplishments of previous jihads.

Suri identifies twenty-five paradigmatic jihadi movements, or particularly instructive historical situations, in which jihadis have both succeeded and failed to mobilize adherents, beat their opponents, and establish territorial control in his book The Call.

However, many of these jihadi movements are hidden, and as a result, they are rarely researched by Western counter-terrorism experts.

 The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point invited David Cook, an expert on Islamic history and jihad, to provide more background on four of Suri’s recognized paradigmatic jihads in order to better understand the jihadi movement’s strategic objectives and mindset:

 1. The Moroccan Harakat al-experience Shabiba’s (1969)

2. The Algerian Harakat al-Dawla al-experience Islamiyya’s (1982-1987)

3. The Afghani Arabs’ experience in Lebanon under Abu A’isha al Lubnani 4. The Islamic Army of Aden Abyan’s experience in Yemen in the 1990s.