Who May Disagree?

The common form of five armed jihadist organizations and the error of comparing creeds

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Nathaniel Brooks

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Independently Published

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36361198

EAN: 9798189705267

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Zustellung: Mo, 07.09.2026

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Beschreibung

Five armed organizations, in five societies that share nothing. The Islamic State in the Euphrates valley. JNIM in the inland delta of the Niger. Al-Shabaab in southern Somalia. The Tehrik-i-Taliban in the Pashtun borderlands. Boko Haram and its rival province around Lake Chad. The standard explanation says they resemble one another because they share a creed. This book shows that they do not. Quietist Salafis profess the Islamic State's doctrine exactly and build nothing like it. The Pakistani Taliban is Deobandi and Hanafi - a tradition historically hostile to Salafism on the one question that matters, who may say what the law requires - and builds precisely it. A creed that comes apart from the form in two mutually hostile lineages is not what produces the form in either. What these organizations share is architectural. Wherever they governed long enough to build anything, they built the same four institutions: courts that try individuals with no appeal outside the process, taxation framed as a religious obligation rather than payment for protection, regulation reaching into spheres that yield no money and no military advantage, and procedures of submission that bypass anyone who might speak on another's behalf. None of these orders contains the position of the person who disagrees and remains a member. And each of them destroyed, at ruinous cost, the one figure it could least afford to lose - the intermediary. Iraqi sheikhs, Somali elders, Pashtun notables, Nigerian clerics. Four organizations that never communicated, making the same expensive mistake against the same social function. Discourses travel between insurgencies. Techniques travel. Costly errors do not. The final chapter turns the same four indicators on the Iraqi, Malian, Somali, Pakistani, and Nigerian states, and the result forces the book's sharpest conclusion: the form belongs to an arrangement, not to an actor - and a state can house one of each. Twenty analytical figures, twenty comparative matrices, seventy-three verified sources, and a method any fieldworker can apply with three questions.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Nathaniel Brooks

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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