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Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics, 65) by Alexander Thurston; Dale F Eickelman; Augustus Richard Norton; American Council of Learned Societies is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics, 65) about?
A comprehensive history of one of the world's deadliest jihadist groupsBoko Haram is one of the world’s deadliest jihadist groups. It has killed more than twenty thousand people and displaced more than two million in a campaign of terror that began in Nigeria but has since spread to Chad, Niger, and Cameroon as well. This is the first book to tell the full story of this West African affiliate of the Islamic State, from its beginnings in the early 2000s to its most infamous violence, including the 2014 kidnapping of 276 Nigerian schoolgirls.Drawing on sources in Arabic and Hausa, rare documents, propaganda videos, press reports, and interviews with experts in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Niger, Alexander Thurston sheds new light on Boko Haram’s development. He shows that the group, far from being a simple or static terrorist organization, has evolved in its worldview and ideology in reaction to events. Chief among these has been Boko Haram’s escalating war with the Nigerian state and civilian vigilantes.The book closely examines both the behavior and beliefs that are the keys to understanding Boko Haram. Putting the group’s violence in the context of the complex religious and political en
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- Author
- Alexander Thurston; Dale F Eickelman; Augustus Richard Norton; American Council of Learned Societies
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781400888481
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Islam, History
Other editions & translations
- Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics, 65) (2017)
- Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics Book 65) (2017)
- Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics Book 65) (2018)