New approaches to the analysis of Jihadism : online and offline / Rüdiger Lohlker (ed.). Göttingen : V&R unipress, 2012
Content
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Body
Rüdiger Lohlker: Introduction
Philipp Holtmann: Virtual Jihad: A Real Danger
Al-Qaeda on the Net
“Media Production Companies”, Fora
From the Chat Room to the Front
Media Campaigns: Copycats Wanted!
Real Threat Potential?
Conclusion
Orhan Elmaz: Jihadi-Salafist Creed: Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi's Imperatives of Faith
Thomas K. Gugler: From Kalashnikov to Keyboard: Pakistan's Jihadiscapes and the Transformation of Lashkar-e Tayba
Sectarian jihadist agenda
The Ahmadiyya, or: the first martial law in 1953
The Shias, or: Iranian vs. Pakistani models of the Islamic Revolution
Makatib-e Fikr: Deobandi vs. Barelwi
Regional jihads: Militants bolstering Pakistan's geopolitical weight
Going global: Transnational Islamist Militancy
The case of Jama’at ud-Da’wa/Lashkar-e Tayba
Involvement
E-Jihad: Online Adventurism & Cyber Recruitment
Conclusion
Philipp Holtmann: Virtual leadership: How Jihadists guide each other in cyberspace
Analytical Framework
Infrastructure and work mode of the jihadist web
Agenda setters of jihad – Jihadist media-companies
“Collective organizers” of online jihad – Jihadist discussion forums
Factors that facilitate virtual leadership in Sunni Muslim culture
The lack of central authority and plurality of power centers in Sunni Islam
The ideological and theological cohesion of jihadists
The breakup of traditional organizational structures
Virtual leadership models
Hierarchical virtual leadership
Mutual virtual leadership
Discursive virtual leadership
Virtual terrorist milieus
Conclusion
Rüdiger Lohlker: The Forgotten Swamp Revisited
Religion and globalization
Islamism, jihadism & al. conceptualized
Islam as a category
Fundamentalism as a concept
Neofundamentalism as a concept
Salafism and Wahhabism
Islamism and political Islam as concepts
Sufism
Jihadism as a concept
Bouchra Oualla: YouTube Jihad: A Rhetorical Analysis of an Islamist Propaganda Video
What does the author intend to demonstrate?
How are the rhetors doing that?
Conclusion
Nico Prucha: Worldwide Online Jihad versus the Gaming Industry Reloaded – Ventures of the Web
All level access: The Internet as the medium for armchair jihadists
A note regarding organization via the Internet
Similar behavioral patterns online – overlapping worlds
Entering the Jihadists' hunting grounds – Never mind the Copyright
Dipping into the Gaming Industry, or: Playing as an ideologue
Games for jihadists – by jihadists
The coherent presence of AQ in the virtual world
Conclusion: The best of all worlds – the broad bandwidth of contemporary online jihadists
Nico Prucha: Jihad via Bluetooth: Al-Qa'ida's Mobile Phone Campaign
Copy-and-paste Jihad
Entering a new dimension, the “Mobile Detachment”: Fariq jawwal al-ansar
The Mission statement
Bibliography
Contributors