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The caravan : Abdallah Azzam and the rise of global jihad /

Abdallah Azzam, the Palestinian cleric who led the mobilization of Arab fighters to Afghanistan in the 1980s, played a crucial role in the internationalization of the jihadi movement. Killed in mysterious circumstances in 1989 in Peshawar, Pakistan, he remains one of the most influential jihadi ideo...

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Main Author:	Hegghammer, Thomas (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2020].
Subjects:	ʻAzzām, ʻAbd Allāh. Jihad > History > 20th century. Palestinian Arabs > Biography. Qaida (Organization) Muslim scholars > Jordan > Biography. Revolutionaries > Jordan > Biography. Afghanistan > History > Soviet occupation, 1979-1989.

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