The Far Enemy
Subtitle: Why Jihad Went Global (Cambridge Middle East Studies)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 5, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780521791403
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Politics/International Relations; Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Comparative Religion; History & Theory - General; History / Middle East; General
First sentence: Throughout the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s jihadis devoted most of their resources to dislodging the near enemy and establishing theocratic states governed by Shariah (Islamic law).