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Transnational Islamist Networks [1]

The International Spectator [2]

Transnational Islamist Networks: Western Fighters in Afghanistan, Somalia and Syria

Authors:
Emmanuel Karagiannis [3]
15/12/2013

Western Muslims have joined jihadi groups in Afghanistan/Pakistan, Somalia and Syria to defend Islam from its perceived enemies. Transnational Islamist networks have played a pivotal role in bringing them to conflict zones by fulfilling three functions: radicalisation through mosques, radical preachers, and the Internet; recruitment which can be conducted either physically or digitally; and identity formation that provides the radicalised recruits with a larger cause to fight for as members of an imagined global community. Transnational Islamist networks are multifunctional entities on the rise.

Keywords: Islamist networks, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria

Details

  • Details

    p. 119-134
  • In:
    The International Spectator [2]
  • Issue

    48/4
  • ISBN/ISSN/DOI:
    10.1080/03932729.2013.847696

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[1] https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/c10/transnational-islamist-networks [2] https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/lista/all/international-spectator [3] https://www.iai.it/en/persone/emmanuel-karagiannis [4] http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03932729.2013.847696