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The 9/11 handbook : annotated translation and interpretation of the attackers' Spiritual Manual

Title
The 9/11 handbook : annotated translation and interpretation of the attackers' Spiritual Manual / edited by Hans G. Kippenberg and Tilman Seidensticker.
Publication
London ; Oakville : Equinox Pub., 2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Kippenberg, Hans G. (Hans Gerhard)
  • Seidensticker, Tilman.
Description
viii, 111 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Alternative Title
Nine-eleven handbook
Subject
  • Qaida (Organization)
  • September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
  • Terrorism > Islam
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [89]-104) and indexes.
Contents
Ch. 1. Background to the Spiritual manual : its discovery, interrogation, and disregard / Hans G. Kippenberg -- Ch. 2. Translation of the Spiritual manual / Tilman Seidensticker, Albrecht Fuess, Moez Khalfaoui and Hans G. Kippenberg -- Ch. 3. The instructions given in the Spiritual manual and their particular interpretation of Islam / Tilman Seidensticker -- Ch. 4. The religious and historical background of suicide attacks in the name of Islam / Tilman Seidensticker -- Ch. 5. Jihad and changing times : the political theology of Usama bin Ladin and his declarations of war / Thomas Scheffler -- Ch. 6. Defining the present situation of Muslims and re-enacting the prophet's Ghazwas / Hans G. Kippenberg -- Ch. 7. The social matrix of the attack / Hans G. Kippenberg -- Ch. 8. Jihad hymns (nashids) as a means of self-motivation in the Hamburg Group / Tilman Seidensticker -- Ch. 9. The Arabic text of the Spiritual manual / Tilman Seidensticker, Albrecht Fuess and Moez Khalfaoui.
ISBN
1845531299 (pb)
LCCN
2006023680
OCLC
  • 70775598
  • ocm70775598
  • SCSB-5370260
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries