123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Historicizing Jihadi Islam

AHA Session 208

Monday, January 5, 2009: 11:00 AM-1:00 PM

Murray Hill Suite A (Hilton New York)

Chair:

Zachary Lockman, New York University

Papers:

Resistance and Jihad in Contemporary Lebanese Shi'a Discourse
Rola El-Husseini, Texas A&M University

The Changing Form of Jihad in Wahhabi Islam
David Commins, Dickinson College

Jihadi Salafis or Revolutionaries? On Religion and Politics in the Study of Militant Islam
Thomas Hegghammer, Princeton University/Norwegian Defence Research Establishment

Al-Qaeda as Anarchism
James L. Gelvin, University of California at Los Angeles

Comment:

Geary Patrick, University of California at Los Angeles

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