Militant Ideology Atlas
The Militant Ideology Atlas
Posted December 3rd, 2006 by Doctor Bulldog
Categories: know your enemy
Wow! CTC at West Point has an incredible document about the Jihadi movement! The document goes by the unassuming title of, “The Militant Ideology Atlas.” I have provided links to the PDF documents at the end of the following press release:
CTC Releases Study of Jihadi Movement
The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point is pleased to announce the release of The Militant Ideology Atlas, an in-depth study of the Jihadi Movement’s top thinkers and their most popular writings. This is the first systematic mapping of the ideology inspiring al-Qaeda.
The CTC’s researchers spent one year mining the most popular books and articles in al-Qaeda’s online library, profiling hundreds of figures in the Jihadi Movement, and cataloging over 11,000 citations. The empirically supported findings of the project are surprising:
* The most influential Jihadi intellectuals are clerics from Jordan and Saudi Arabia, two of the US’s closest allies in the Middle East.
* Among them, the Jordanian cleric Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi has had the most impact on other Jihadi thinkers and has been the most consequential in shaping the worldview of the Jihadi Movement.
* In contrast, the study finds that Usama Bin Ladin and Ayman al-Zawahiri have had little influence on other Jihadi theorists and strategists.
The Executive Report summarizes the main conclusions of this comprehensive effort and provides policy-relevant recommendations informed by these findings. The Research Compendium contains summaries of all the texts used in the study as well as biographies of the texts’ authors and the figures they cite most.
A link to the entire database will be available soon.
You can download a PDF version of the Executive Report HERE
And, a PDF of the Research Compendium HERE
Posted December 3rd, 2006 by Doctor Bulldog
Categories: know your enemy
Wow! CTC at West Point has an incredible document about the Jihadi movement! The document goes by the unassuming title of, “The Militant Ideology Atlas.” I have provided links to the PDF documents at the end of the following press release:
CTC Releases Study of Jihadi Movement
The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point is pleased to announce the release of The Militant Ideology Atlas, an in-depth study of the Jihadi Movement’s top thinkers and their most popular writings. This is the first systematic mapping of the ideology inspiring al-Qaeda.
The CTC’s researchers spent one year mining the most popular books and articles in al-Qaeda’s online library, profiling hundreds of figures in the Jihadi Movement, and cataloging over 11,000 citations. The empirically supported findings of the project are surprising:
* The most influential Jihadi intellectuals are clerics from Jordan and Saudi Arabia, two of the US’s closest allies in the Middle East.
* Among them, the Jordanian cleric Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi has had the most impact on other Jihadi thinkers and has been the most consequential in shaping the worldview of the Jihadi Movement.
* In contrast, the study finds that Usama Bin Ladin and Ayman al-Zawahiri have had little influence on other Jihadi theorists and strategists.
The Executive Report summarizes the main conclusions of this comprehensive effort and provides policy-relevant recommendations informed by these findings. The Research Compendium contains summaries of all the texts used in the study as well as biographies of the texts’ authors and the figures they cite most.
A link to the entire database will be available soon.
You can download a PDF version of the Executive Report HERE
And, a PDF of the Research Compendium HERE
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