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Ideology, Rules, & Edicts

One of the Center’s first major reports was a product called the Militant Ideology Atlas. That product used citation analysis to identify the most influential thinkers in the Jihadi Movement. It also delineated the movement’s key ideological vulnerabilities. Browse the research products below to learn more about our work in this area.

December 16, 2010

Self Inflicted Wounds

Anne Stenersen, Bernard Haykel, Brynjar Lia, Marc Lynch, Mohammed M. Hafez, Reuven Paz, Steven Brooke, Vahid Brown

October 1, 2009

Radical Islamic Ideology In Southeast Asia

Scott Helfstein

January 2, 2007

Cracks in the Foundation: Leadership Schisms in Al-Qa`ida From 1989-2006

Vahid Brown

November 1, 2006

Militant Ideology Atlas

William McCants (ed.)

September 17, 2020

The Crisis Within Jihadism: The Islamic State’s Puritanism vs. al-Qa`ida’s Populism

Mohammed Hafez

April 28, 2020

The Nexus Between Far-Right Extremists in the United States and Ukraine

Tim Lister

January 23, 2020

Piety Is in the Eye of the Bureaucrat: The Islamic State’s Strategy of Civilian Control

Gina Vale

Lessons from the Islamic State’s ‘Milestone’ Texts and Speeches

Haroro J. Ingram, Craig Whiteside, Charlie Winter

Administrative Order from al-Tabqa Hospital to Female Section Nurses

Untitled [Memorandum from the Office of the Wali, Raqqa Province]

Letter from Abu Fahd al-Tunisi

Written Pledge: Raqqa Province

December 1, 2008

The Globalization of Martyrdom

Assaf Moghadam

November 4, 2008

Motives for Martyrdom

Assaf Moghadam

January 1, 2008

Abdullah Azzam’s Books-Part I

LCDR Youssef Aboul-Enein, MSC, U.S. Navy

The Late Sheikh Abdullah Azzam’s Books- Part II

LCDR Youssef Aboul-Enein, MSC, U.S. Navy

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