Salafi-Jihadism. The History of an Idea, Paperback - Shiraz Maher

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Shiraz MaherNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 201 x 139 x 20Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Shiraz Maher charts the intellectual underpinnings of salafi-jihadism from its origins in the mountains of the Hindu Kush to the jihadist insurgenc...

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Since being elected president in 1998, Hugo Chávez has become the face of contemporary Venezuela and, more broadly, anticapitalist revolution. Geor...

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