The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad by Thomas Hegghammer

The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad

Thomas Hegghammer

718 pages 2020

2 editions

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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, Pakista...

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