Inside jihadism : understanding jihadi movements worldwide / Farhad Khosrokhavar.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Explanatory Approaches to Jihadism -- The Role of Social Networks and Group Dynamics -- Economic Issues and Jihadist Movements -- Culture and Religion -- Rational Choice Theory -- 2. Jihadist Ideology -- The Renewal of Jihadist Thought -- Martyrdom and Jihad -- 3. Jihadism: A Culture of Violence Turned into a Culture of Death -- Modern Forefathers of Jihadism -- The Centrality of Death in Jihadism -- Violence in the Jihadist Narrative -- The Jihadist View of History: The West's Permanent Fight against Islam -- Cultural and Political Domination by the West -- The West as the Perverse Culture of Humankind's Fight against Allah -- 4. The Jihadist View of Democracy -- The Negative Context of Democracy in the Muslim World -- Democracy as the New False Western Religion Imported into the Land of Islam -- 5. Fundamentalism in Islam -- Three Branches of Fundamentalism -- Islamic Fundamentalism and Hermeneutics -- Modernization and the Muslim World -- The Jihadist Critique of the Fundamentalist Ulama -- Shi'ite Hyper-Fundamentalists and Their Rejection of Democracy -- The Weakness of Secular Tendencies in Islam -- Fundamentalism and New Social Groups -- 6. The Transmission of Jihad to the West -- The Social Origins of Jihadists in the West -- Jihadist Neo-Umma or the Politics of Victimization -- The Role of Humiliation -- The Views of Muslim Prisoners in Europe -- Jihadist Born-Again Muslims and Converts -- Types of Jihadist Groups -- Types of Jihadist Individuals -- Women and Martyrdom -- The Evolution of Global Al Qaeda in the West -- Jihadists' Negative Attitude toward Recent Muslim Migrations to the West -- 7. Jihadist Intelligentsia around the World -- The Islamic Revolutionary Vanguard -- The Icons, the Popularizers, and the Local Charismatic Imams -- The Postmodern Jihadist Popularizer: The Case of Lewis Atiyat-Ollah -- New Warfare through Global Media: The Prominence of the Symbolic Dimension -- Conclusion: Toward an Islam of Hope -- Perverse Modernization and the Foundations of Renewal -- The Success and Failure of Jihadism.