ʿAbdallāh ʿAzzām and Palestine

ʿAbdallāh ʿAzzām (1941–1989) helped make jihadism more transnational by spearheading the effort to bring Muslim foreign fighters to Afghanistan in the 1980s. But why would a West Bank native devote himself to a war in Central Asia and not to the Palestinian struggle? In order to understand ʿAzzām’s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hegghammer, T
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Brill Academic Publishers 2013