Aisha Ahmad

Jihad & Co.

Black Markets and Islamist Power

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Why are Islamists able to build state-like polities out of enduring civil war stalemate? By tracking the financial origins of jihadists in Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan, Mali, and Iraq, The Mosque and the Market shows that behind the heated rhetoric, there are hard economic reasons behind Islamist success.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 164mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 583g
• ISBN-13: 9780190656775
• ISBN-10: 0190656778
• Artikelnr.: 47863303

Autorenporträt

Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Chapter 1: Mosques and Markets
* Chapter 2: Black Flags in the Bazaar: The Making of Modern Islamist
Proto-States
* Chapter 3: Mafia and Mujahideen: Trafficking and Trust-Building under
Soviet Occupation
* Chapter 4: Traders and Taliban: Business Interests and Islamist Power
in Afghanistan
* Chapter 5: Beards for Business: The Origins and Evolution of the
Mogadishu Mafia
* Chapter 6: The Price of Protection: The Rise of the Islamic Courts
Union
* Chapter 7: The Blowback Effect: International Intervention and the
Collapse of the Proto-State
* Chapter 8: The Proto-State Goes Global: Criminal Business Networks
and Jihadist Power across the Muslim World
* Appendix: Methodology and Field Research