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Authors: Jon Armajani
and Muslim education 12 and progress 40
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency, United States)
and Iran 10
treatment of terrorists by 112 Clinton, Bill: orders attack on al-Qaida
leadership 146, 208 colonialism
in Islamic world 7, 37 Islamism as response to 7
Cole, USS see USS Cole
Congress Party (India): opposed by Jama(at-i Islami 171
Cook, David: on jihad 12 Crusades
history of 6–7
Muslim perspectives on 5–6, 73 paralleled with modern Palestinian
situation 73
Zawahiri on 73–4 Cunningham, General Alan 93
Dalai Lama 16
Dar al-Ulum (Cairo) 42, 49, 55
Daud, Prince (Afghanistan): restoration of 191
Dayan, Moshe 100: on conduct of Israel’s occupation of West Bank and Gaza 99
democracy: rejected as anti-Islamic 74–5, 167, 168
Doctorow, E. L.: on history as myth 218
Dostum, General Rashid 195, 204
dress, Islamic 21, 169
economy: Islamic-style 22
education: Islamic 21 secular values in 12
Egypt
and colonialism 37
influence of 29
Islamism in 27, 110; see also Muslim Brotherhood (Egypt)
leading role of 76–7 and pan-Arabism 76
and public Islam 182–3 and al-Qaida 27
secular government in 20 torture in prisons of 58, 64, 65 United States’ support for 9
Fahd, King (Saudi Arabia) and Gulf War 138
Islamic character adopted by 137 al-Farabi: on philosopher-king 39 Faraj, Muhammad Abd al-Salam 63,
64
al-Fatah 27
foundation of 94 governs West Bank 110 merges with PLO 96
principles and organization of 94–5 al-Fawwaz, Khaled: on Bin Laden’s
lifestyle in Sudan 143 Five Pillars of Belief 3
and jihad 13
Five Pillars of Islam 3 and jihad 12–13
France: as colonial power 7, 37 Free Officers (Egypt) 53 fundamentalism
common characteristics of 218–19 and cosmic war 218–19
defined 2
forms of 22–3
influence of 219–20
Islamic 23; see also al-Qaida
and organizational networks 218 and religio-political justifications for
violence 218–19
gambling: Islamic ban on 22 al-Gam(iyya al-Islamiyya 66 Gaza
governed by Hamas 110 Israeli occupation of 99–100 mosques in 103
Palestinian youth militancy in 100, 101
see also Israel/Palestine Germany: and Istanbul–Kuwait rail
line 130
Giddens, Anthony: on reflexivity 23 Girard, René: on religious violence 18 Goldstein, Baruch: killings in Hebron
by 107 Great Britain
and Arabian peninsula 130, 132,
134
as colonial power 7, 37 and Saudi oil 134
and Zionism 89
Guantanamo Bay 112
Guinness, Walter Edward, first Baron Moyne 93
Guizot, François: civilization theory of 39
Gulf War 137–8
Hadith
authority of 3
in Ibn Abd al-Wahhab’s thought 124 and zina) 126–7
Haganah 92, 93
halal regulations 13
Hamas 26, 94
and democracy 75
emergence of 102 and first intifada 105 founders of 103
and future of Israel/Palestine 104–5 governs Gaza 110
Islamist principles of 104 and Jews 103–4
and Muslim Brotherhood 102 suicide attacks by 107, 108,
109–10
as United States’ enemy 113
ul-Haq, Maulana Sami: on Bin Laden’s heroic status 147
Haq, General Muhammad Zia ul- and Jama(at-i Islami 178, 179–80
policies of, during Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 188–91, 193–4
and United States military aid 190 Hardy, Thomas: influences Qutb 55 Harlow, Barbara 111
Hasan, Major Nidal Malik: and Fort Hood attack 77
Hazaras 147, 206
and Bamiyan 195, 206 expel Taliban from Mazar-i
Sharif 205
massacred by Taliban 207 women’s role among 206
Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin 195 contacted by Mullah Omar 197 and Hizb-i Islami 193
Herat: conquered by Taliban 200–1 Herzl, Theodor 87, 88
The Jewish State 87–8
Hezbollah: as enemy of United States 113 hijra 60, 145
Bin Laden and 18, 145 Hiltermann, Joost: on Israel’s
occupation of West Bank and Gaza 99
history, Islamic: Islamist interpretations of 145–6, 166–7, 169–70, 200,
219–20
Hizb al-Istiqlal al-Arabiyya fi Suriya al-Janubiyya 92
Hizb-i Islami 193
Hizb-i Wahadat 206
Huntingdon, Samuel: on Afghanistan after Soviet withdrawal 211
Husayn, Taha 55
Hussain, King (Jordan) 98, 99
Ibn Abd al-Aziz, Saud 129
Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Muhammad 20, 26, 28, 122–8
Hadith in thought of 124 influence of, on Saud family 128 opposition to 127
propagates message 124–5
tawhid central to thought of 122–4 teachers of 124
travels of 124–5
Ibn Ibrahim ibn Sayf, Abd Allah 124 Ibn Muammar, Uthman ibn Hamid: as
protector of Ibn Abd
al-Wahhab 125, 127–8 Ibn Muhammad, Abd al-Aziz
conquests of 128
murdered 129
Ibn Muhammad, Sulayman 127–8 Ibn Saud (Abd al-Aziz ibn al-Rahman
ibn Faisal al-Saud) 130–4 founds third Saudi state 130–1 and ikhwan 131–2
as Imam 133
and mutawwa(a 131–2
Ibn Saud, Muhammad 125, 128 Ibn Taymiyya, Taqi al-Din Ahmad
and Bin Laden 152 on Mongols 59
Ibn Turki, Faisal 129
ikhwan (in the Arabian Peninsula) 131–2
India
and Afghanistan 26–7, 28 democratic system in 168
as potential threat to Pakistan 212 International Solidarity Movement 111 Inter-Services Intelligence (Pakistan) see
ISI
intifada
first 101–5
second 108–9
United National Leadership (UNL) of 101–2
Iqbal, Muhammad 28 Iran
and Afghani 37–8
and Israel 9
and India 26–7, 28
and Pakistan 26–7, 28, 211
and Saudi Arabia 137, 153
Sharia in 26
and Soviet expansion into Afghanistan 189
and the Taliban 200–1, 202, 203,
207, 208
and Tobacco Protest in Iran 38 and United States’ Middle East
policy 113
United States’ involvement in 10 Iraq
humanitarian disaster in 11 “no-fly zones” in 11
as United States’ enemy 113
United States’ involvement in 10–11
Irgun 92, 93
ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan) 27, 190
in Afghanistan 193, 197–8, 210 and Mullah Omar 197
Islam
antithetical to Western secular values 1
beliefs of see Five Pillars of Belief change and tradition in 1 etymology of 3
fundamentalism in see under
fundamentalism, Islamic gender roles in 168–9 ideological diversity within 3–5
ideological enemies of 169; see also
democracy issues in 3
liberal 4–5
monotheism of 123 and the personal 1 and progress 40
sacred cities of 11, 25
secular 5
and sexual relations see sexual relations
and social justice 22 truth of 1
violence as means of spreading 14–15
as way of life 3, 13
Islambuli, Khalid 63, 64
Islamic Jihad (Egypt) 63, 68, 69, 149 attacks by, on Egyptian officials 68–9
Islamism
advancement of, in Afghanistan 210 as cosmic warfare 218–19
defined 1
and government 20, 21 as fundamentalism see
fundamentalism
global reach of 77–8 ideology of 24
as ideology 1, 2
intellectual progenitors of 20 military base needed for 72, 73
mosques in service of 103, 218
Islamism (cont’d) and Nazism 52
and Palestine problem 26 principles of 1
and reflexivity 23–4
in society 24
strengthened by Afghanistan wars 210
and the West 1, 2, 24, 220
see also Hamas; Jama(at-i Islami; Muslim Brotherhood; al-Qaida; Taliban; Wahhabism
Israel, state of establishment of 93 historic context of 25
Muslims’ critiques against 9–10 name of 85
and 1948 War 93 relations with Britain 8–9 survival of 10
United States’ identification with 113 United States’ support for 7–8, 9, 113 and West Bank settlements 8
see also Palestinians Israel/Palestine
Hamas’s vision of future of 104–5 Jewish settlement of 91–2 Muslim claims to 85–6, 103–4
promised in Old Testament to Jews 85, 107–8
as Palestine Mandate 91 partitioned 93
see also Israel, state of Italy: as colonial power 37
jahil
Hamas on 105
Qutb on 58
jahili
Abd al-Rahman on 66 Hamas on 140
the mujahideen on 192 Qutb on 58–62
Sirriya and Zawahiri on 71 Zawahiri on 63–4, 70, 72
jahiliyya
Bin Laden on 152
Mawdudi on 166
Qutb on 58–9
societies manifesting 59–61, 72
al-Jama(a al-Islamiyya 62
Jama(at-i Islami (Pakistan) 164, 171
and Afghanistan 193 imprisonment of members of 175 influence of 180–1
and Kashmir 174–5
leaders of 180
as political party 173, 177, 180 similarities to Muslim
Brotherhood 181–3
social services offered by 172–3 Jama(at al-Ulema-i Pakistan 149 Jerusalem
accorded international status 93 as Muslim and Jewish sacred
city 86
Jewish agency: facilitates Jewish settlement of Israel/Palestine 92
Jews
American 89
British 89
diasporas of 86
Israel promised to, in Old Testament 85
jihad
defined 12
internal (greater) and external (lesser) 12–13
physical 60
Quranic injunctions concerning 14 as self-defense 13, 15, 60
Jihad Movement (Bangladesh) 149 Jihad Organization (Egypt) 62 Jinnah, Fatimah: Jama(at-i Islami
support for, as presidential candidate 176–7
Jordan: Palestinians in 98, 99 Juergensmeyer, Mark: on religious
violence 18
June War (1967) 96, 98
Kabul
besieged by Taliban 201–2 captured by Taliban 203
Kandahar
during civil war 195 Taliban capture of 198 Taliban conference at 201–2
Kashmir
Jama(at-i Islami and 174–5 jihadis in 174
Khan, Ismael
contacted by Mullah Omar 197 controls Herat 195
Khan, Sayyid Ahmed 28
al-Khattab, Zayd ibn: Ibn Abd
al-Wahhab destroys tomb of 126 al-Khazindar Bey, Ahmad: assassination
of 52
King, Martin Luther 15, 17
Kuwait: Iraqi invasion of 10, 67, 138
Lashkar-i Taiba: Pakistani support for 191
League of Nations 91 Lebanon
Islamist attack on United States Marines in 145, 149
PLO in 99
Lovers of Zion 87
madrasahs: Islamism fostered in 4, 29,
192–3, 210
al-Majmu)i, Muhammad 124
Malcolm X 15, 17
martyrdom operations 9–10
and Hamas 107–8
Islamist justification for 109–10 Mawdudi, Sayyid Abdu)l-A(la 20, 28
background of 164
and democracy 167–8
on gender roles and dress 168–9 and Ibn Abd al-Wahhab 166 imprisoned 175, 176
on Islamic history 166–7, 169–70
on Islamic state 167–8, 169
founds Jama(at-i Islami 164, 165–6,
171, 181
on jihad 171, 174
and Kashmir question 174–5 on mujaddids 167
on Quran 165
on revolution 169–71 on role of Sharia 167 writings of 165
Mazar-i Sharif importance of 204
Taliban attack on 204–5 Mecca
and Bin Laden 139, 143, 145
and early Islamic battles 98, 106 and early Islamic community 18
in the early nineteenth century 129 and Ibn Abd al-Wahhab 124
and Ibn Saud 133
and Islamist opposition 136 and Mawdudi 165, 169
and Muhammad’s night journey 85 and Pakistan’s support of Islamists
194
pilgrimage to 3, 11
polytheism in 123
and Saudi Arabian government 25 and Umar ibn al-Khattab 86
Medina
in Afghani’s discourse 39 in Arafat’s discourse 98
and Bin Laden 139, 143, 145
in the early nineteenth century 129 as a holy city for Muslims 86
and Ibn Abd al-Wahhab 124 and Ibn Saud 133
and martyrdom operations 109 and Mawdudi 170
and the mujahideen 193
and al-Qaida’s discourse 14, 15, 18, 19 in Qutb’s discourse 60
and Saudi Arabian government 25 and significance for Muslims 11
Michaud, Joseph-François: Histoire des croisades 6
Military Academy Group (Egypt) 70 Military Technical College Organization
(Egypt) 62
Mohammed, Hamza 141
mosques: Islamism fostered in 1–3, 218 Moyne, Lord see Guinness, Walter
Edward, first Baron Moyne