Product Description

Bringing together the various statements issued under Bin Laden's name, this volume forms part of a discourse, including Jason Burke's 'Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam' and Adam Curtis's, 'The Power of Nightmares', that seeks to contextualize, to explain and understand the challenge posed by Al-Qaeda, both to the Islam and to the West.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #152587 in Books
• Published on: 2005-11-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .1 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

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Review
This vital collection of Bin Laden's statements ... provides an invaluable insight into his thinking by bringing his disparate pronouncements within a single set of covers. --Malise Ruthven, Sunday Times

Here, with a shrewd, scholarly introduction from Bruce Lawrence, is the complete bin Laden reader. --Peter Preston, Observer

Collectively, these messages are the closest we will ever have to the terrorist leader's Mein Kampf. --Mary Braid, Independent on Sunday

About the Author
Bruce Lawrence is the Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion at Duke University. He is the author of New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life, Shattering the Myth, and Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt Against the Modern Age. James Howarth wrote his PhD thesis at SOAS, London, on the religious revival in contemporary Arab thought. He has an MA in Arabic linguistics, and worked on MAS Abdul Haleem's translation of the Qur'an (OUP, 2004).