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6. al-Zaydi, ‘History (Part 2)’. Al-Farhan studied first at the American University in Beirut and later got a Ph.D. in Education from Columbia University.
7. Mohammad Abu Rumman and Hassan Abu Hanieh, Jordanian Salafism: A Strategy for the “Islamization of Society” and an Ambiguous Relationship with the State (Amman: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, December 2010), p. 55.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid., p. 53.
10. Ibid.
11. ‘The Words of Abdallah Azzam’, p. 59.
12. Lacroix, Awakening Islam, pp. 37 ff.
13. Joas Wagemakers, Salafism in Jordan: Political Islam in a Quietist Community (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 98–99; Abu Rumman and Abu Hanieh, Jordanian Salafism, p. 53.
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16. Stéphane Lacroix, ‘Between Revolution and Apoliticism: Nasir al-Din al-Albani and his Impact on the Shaping of Contemporary Salafism’, in Global Salafism: Islam’s New Religious Movement, ed. Roel Meijer (London: Hurst, 2009), 58–80, p. 71.
17. Stéphane Lacroix, ‘al-Albani’s Revolutionary Approach to Hadith’, ISIM Review no. 21 (2008): 6–7.
18. Olivier Carré, Mystique et politique: lecture révolutionnaire du Coran par Sayyid Qutb, Frère Musulman radical (Paris: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1984).
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20. ‘The Words of Abdallah Azzam’, p. 59.
21. Ibid., p. 60.
22. ‘al-Albani about Qutb, Abdullah Azzam and al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun’, Youtube, n.d.
23. Ibid.
25. Frances Cairncross, The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Will Change our Lives (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1997), p. 214.
26. Robert Bianchi, Guests of God: Pilgrimage and Politics in the Islamic World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 49–51.
27. J. M. Berger, Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam (Washington, DC: Potomac, 2011), p. 3.
28. Author’s interview with Isam al-Attar, Aachen, 16 December 2009.
30. Abu Rumman and Sa‘id, al-‘alim, p. 33.
31. Author’s interview with Fayiz Azzam, al-Sila al-Harithiyya, 4 May 2008.
32. Author’s interview with Jamal Isma‘il, Islamabad, 18 March 2008.
33. Author’s interview with Jamal Isma‘il, Islamabad, 18 March 2008.
34. ‘Muslim Scholars Visit ITC’, Islamic Teaching Center News, February 1978. I am very grateful to J. M. Berger for sharing this source, which he retrieved from the DePaul University Library. See also Berger, Jihad Joe, pp. 7 and 222–223.
35. ‘Muslim Scholars Visit ITC’.
36. Email correspondence with Stéphane Lacroix, 7 November 2017.
37. ‘List of Islamic Society of North America conventions’.
38. ‘Director-General of Islamic Teaching Center Concludes Middle East Tour’, Islamic Teaching Center News 1 no. 1 (February 1978): 3.
39. Wright, The Looming Tower, p. 75.
40. Omar Bin Laden, Najwa Bin Laden, and Jean Sasson, Growing up Bin Laden: Osama’s Wife and Son Take us Inside their Secret World (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2009), p. 25.
41. Ibid., pp. 35–36.
42. Steve Coll, ‘Osama in America: The Final Answer’, New Yorker, 30 June 2009.
43. fi ‘uyun mu‘asira, p. 187.
44. al-Ghannouchi, ‘‘abdallah ‘azzam namudhaj’.
45. Amir, al-shaykh al-mujahid, p. 314.
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48. al-Ghannouchi, ‘‘abdallah ‘azzam namudhaj’; Amir, al-shaykh almujahid, pp. 311–319; al-Bunyan al-Marsus no. 30 (February 1990), p. 22.
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51. Abbas Khamahyar, iran wa’l-ikhwan al-muslimin: dirasa fi ‘awamil aliltiqa’ wa’l-iftiraq [Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood: A Study of the Causes of Confluence and Divergence] (Beirut: Markaz al-Dirasat al-Istratijiyya wa’l-Buhuth wa’l-Tawthiq, 1997), pp. 228 ff.; Walid M. Abdelnasser, ‘Islamic Organizations in Egypt and the Iranian Revolution of 1979: The Experience of the First Few Years’, Arab Studies Quarterly 19, no. 2 (1997): 25–39; Toby Matthiesen, ‘The Iranian Revolution and Sunni Political Islam’, in New Analysis of Shia Politics, ed. Marc Lynch, POMEPS Studies 28 (Washington, DC: George Washington University Project on Middle East Political Science, 2017), 36–38.
52. Ghusheh, The Red Minaret, pp. 118–119.
53. Author’s interview with Ahmad Zaidan, Islamabad, 18 March 2008.
54. al-Bunyan al-Marsus no. 30 (February 1990), p. 18.
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56. fi ‘uyun mu‘asira, p. 171.
57. Author’s interview with Jamal Isma‘il, Islamabad, 18 March 2008.
58. Aziz, ‘‘abdallah ‘azzam wa juhuduhu’, pp. 154 and 185.
59. Author’s interview with Abdallah Anas, London, 1 December 2015.
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61. Author’s interview with Fayiz Azzam, al-Sila al-Harithiyya, 4May 2008.
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63. Author’s interview with Hudhayfa Azzam, Amman, 11 September 2006.
64. Lia, ‘The Islamist Uprising’; Dara Conduit, ‘The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and the Spectacle of Hama’, Middle East Journal 70, no. 2 (15 April 2016): 211–226.
65. Author’s interview with Fayiz Azzam, al-Sila al-Harithiyya, 4 May 2008. Guido Steinberg, ‘Jihadi-Salafism and the Shi’is: Remarks about the Intellectual Roots of anti-Shi’ism’, in Global Salafism: Islam’s New Religious Movement, ed. Roel Meijer (London: Hurst, 2009), 107–125, pp. 118–121.
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102. William Ochsenwald, ‘Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Revival’, International Journal of Middle East Studies 13 (1981): 271–286, p. 281.
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106. Ibid., p. 86.
107. Ibid., pp. 88–89.
108. Muslim World League, qararat wa tawsiyat, p. 5.
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111. Amr Elshobaki, Les Frères Musulmans des origines à nos jours (Paris: Karthala, 2009), p. 135.
112. Abdullah al-Arian, ‘Commanding the Faithful: Frame Construction in Egyptian Islamist Periodicals, 1976–1981’, Journal of Islamic Studies 28, no. 3 (September 2017): 341–368, p. 365.
113. Elshobaki, Les Frères Musulmans, pp. 133–135. See also Martyn Frampton, The Muslim Brotherhood and the West: A History of Enmity and Engagement (Cambridge,MA: Harvard University Press, 2018), chapter 7.
114. Alison Pargeter, The Muslim Brotherhood: The Burden of Tradition (London: Saqi, 2010), p. 104.
115. Husam Tammam, ‘altanzim al-duwali li’l-ikhwan . . . al-wa‘d wa’l-masira wa’l-mal?’ [The Brotherhood’s International Organization . . . its Promise, Path, and Fate?], al-Hiwar no. 962 (20 September 2004), http://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=23729 (last accessed 13 March 2018); Pargeter, The Muslim Brotherhood, pp. 96–132; Abduh Mustafa Dasuqi, nash’at altanzim al-duwali li’l-ikhwan al-muslimin: min al-nash’a hatta al-sab‘inat [The Emergence of the International Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood: From the Emergence to the 1970s] (Cairo: Mu’assasat Iqra’ li’l-Nashr wa’l-Tawzi‘ wa’l-Tarjama, 2013); and Hossam Tamam, ‘The International Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood’, in Islamic Movements of Europe: Public Religion and Islamophobia in the Modern World, ed. Frank Peter and Rafael Ortega (London: I. B. Tauris, 2014), 89–94.
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118. Al-Jihad no. 30 (May 1987) and al-Jihad no. 35 (October 1987), p. 38.
119. Author’s interview with Kamal al-Helbawy, London, 23 March 2008.
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123. al-Jihad no. 56 (June 1989), p. 24.
124. Al Shafey, ‘Asharq al-Awsat Interviews Umm Mohammed’.
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126. Muhammad, al-ansar, pp. 32–33.
127. Author’s interview with Hudhayfa Azzam, Amman, 11 September 2006.
128. Author’s interview with Kamal al-Helbawy, London, 23 March 2008.
129. Abu Hilala, awwal al-afghan al-‘arab, at 30’15’’ ff.
130. Ibid., at 30’45’’ ff.
131. Azzam, ‘dhikrayat filastin’, p. 5. See also Azzam, al-duktur al-shahid, pp. 37–38.
132. Muhammad, al-ansar, pp. 32–33.
133. al-Jihad no. 56 (June 1989), p. 24.
134. Author’s interview with Jamal Isma‘il, Islamabad, 18 March 2008.
135. Abdallah Azzam, ‘wathiqa ila al-ikhwan al-muslimun fi’l urdun’, p. 1004.
136. Author’s interview with Abd Rabb al-Rasul Sayyaf, Paghman, 8 December 2017.
137. al-Wa‘i, mawsu‘at shuhada’ (part 1), pp. 212–221. Azzam, al-duktur al-shahid, pp. 38–39; and Calvert, Sayyid Qutb, pp. 274 and 277.
138. fi ‘uyun mu‘asira, p. 372.
139. al-Wa‘i, mawsu‘at shuhada’ (part 1), p. 217.
140. al-Mujtama‘, 11 November 1981, cited in ibid. (part 1), p. 218.
141. Azzam, ‘dhikrayat min sahat al-jihad’, p. 13. Azzam, al-duktur al-shahid, p. 37.
142. fi ‘uyun mu‘asira, p. 44.
143. Abu Hilala, awwal al-afghan al-‘arab, at 30’20’’ ff.
144. Ibid.
145. Azzam, al-duktur al-shahid, p. 38.
146. Amina Qutb, rasa’il ila shahid [Letter to a Martyr] (Amman: Dar al-Furqan, 1985), p. 61.
147. Author’s interview with Jamal Isma‘il, Islamabad, 18 March 2008.
148. al-Mujtama‘ no 944, in Amir, al-shaykh al-mujahid, p. 92.
149. Azzam, al-duktur al-shahid, p. 41.
150. Qutb, rasa’il ila shahid, p. 64; ‘Kamal al-Sananiri’, www.ikhwan.net/wiki. Azzam, al-duktur al-shahid, p. 38. Matias Seidelin, Allahs danske krigere [Allah’s Danish Warriors] (Copenhagen: Politiken forlag, 2012), epub paragraphs 10.50–59.
151. al-Bunyan al-Marsus no. 30 (February 1990), p. 8.
152. Abu Hilala, awwal al-afghan al-‘arab, at 30’20’’ ff.
153. Abu Hilala, awwal al-afghan al-‘arab, at 32’50’’ ff.
154. [No reference]
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