Islamist Terrorism and Its Intellectual Influences

Books

• Benjamin, Daniel and Simon, Steven. The Age of Sacred Terror. (New York: Random House, 2002).
• Cook, David. Understanding Jihad. (Los Angeles: University of California, 2005). An erudite explanation of the history of jihadist thought.
• Firestone, Reuven. Jihad, the Origin of Holy War in Islam. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
• Hoffman, Bruce. Inside Terrorism. (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1998).
• Gerges, Fawaz. The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global. (New York: Cambridge, 2005). Well researched account of how the global jihadist movement is driven by internecine ideological disputes and petty feuds.
• Kepel, Gilles. Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam. (Cambridge: Belknap Press, Harvard 2002).
• Kepel, Gilles. Muslim Extremism in Egypt, the Prophet and Pharaoh. (California: University of California Press, 1986 (1st ed.)).
• Lewis, Bernard. The Political Language of Islam. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988).
• Qutb, Sayyid. Milestones. American Trust Publications, 1991.
• Ruthven, Malise. A Fury for God. The Islamist Attack on America. (New York: Granta Books, 2002).

Articles

• Berman, Paul. "The Philosopher of Islamic Terror." New York Times Magazine. March 23, 2003.
• Gertz, Clifford. "Which Way to Mecca?" New York Review of Books. June 12, 2003.
• Paz, Reuven. "Islamists and Anti-Americanism." Middle East Review of International Affairs. 7.4, December 2003.
• Takeyh, Rey and Nikolas Gvosdev. "Radical Islam: Death of an Ideology." Middle East Policy, 9.4, Winter 2004. 86-95.

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