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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Syrian Jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgencydi Charles R. Lister
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"It is not for the general reader seeking an overall understanding of the Syrian civil war. But it is an indispensable guide to the different jihadi factions."
"This book assesses and explains the emergence since 2011 of Sunni jihadist organizations in Syria's fledgling insurgency, charts their evolution and situates them within the global Islamist project. Unprecedented numbers of foreign fighters have joined such groups, who will almost certainly continue to host them. Thus, external factors in their emergence are scrutinized, including the strategic and tactical lessons learned from other jihadist conflict zones and the complex interplay between Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State and how it has influenced the jihadist sphere in Syria. Tensions between and conflict within such groups also feature in this indispensable volume."--Amazon.com. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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In a interview with Aron Lund last year, Lister stated: "Islamists have so often told me stories of how they had Christian, Shia, Alawite, or Druze neighbors whose families had been close for generations; how their children walked to school together; their parents arranged big meals on the weekends; and how their religious differences were never of any relevance. That’s the Syria they all want to go back to, just with Assad out of the way." It strikes me that would make a fine thesis for a book—to what extent is the threat of Syrian partition into warring religious states real or imagined? How committed are the various factions to maintaining Syria's tradition of religious and cultural diversity? I think I would have been much more interested in a sifting of the narratives against that question.
At any rate, Lister has given us a useful book that distinguishes itself by detailed analysis of non-Islamic-State actors in the struggle, and I would hope that it will be treated as foundational by further texts to come on Syria's civil war and related issues. ( )