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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
One of the most puzzling developments since the watershed event of 9/11 and the onset of the U.S.-led Global War on Terror (GWOT) is the expansion of the jihadi movement in the Arab world. This has taken place despite ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Jihadism in Norway has witnessed a huge shift from consisting primarily of foreign ethnically homogenous networks with a low capacity for mobilization, to the current situation where a loose country-wide network of domestic ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Scholars dealing with the rise of contemporary Islamism and the Muslim Brothers’ early history frequently turn to Ḥasan al-Bannā’s autobiography, Mudhakkirāt al-Daʿwah wa’l-Dāʿiyah (Memoirs of the Call and the Preacher) ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The rise of ISIS has drawn scholarly attention to militant Islamist movements as quasi-state actors, embracing governance as a core area of legitimation. Due to their commitment to conservative, literalist interpretations ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Initially construed as the vital link between Saddam Husayn’s Iraq and al-Qaida in the runup to the Iraq war, the Ansar al-Islam (AI) group formed in Iraqi Kurdistan in December 2001 has been the subject of intense debate ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
In contrast to common assumptions, jihadist movements’ view of Christian minorities in the Middle East has been neither unambiguous nor static. It changes according to the overall political conflict in the region and is ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The surprising ability of the jihadist organisation “the Islamic State” to capture and hold large territories in Syria and Iraq raises important questions regarding rebel governance in civil wars. One understudied aspect ...