Tribes and global jihadism

Tribes and global jihadism is a welcome contribution to the comparative study of tribes and tribalism in the Arab Muslim world, a subject which has long suffered from limited research and publication. Moreover, many of the contributions to the edited volume focus on areas—like the city of Sirte in Libya, the Lake Chad Basin and the borderland between Egypt and Libya—where very little fieldwork has occurred in recent years. Before, during and after the 17 February Revolution which overthrew the Gaddafi regime in Libya, for example, journalists, pundits and the like frequently based their comments on Libyan tribes on research conducted before, during or immediately after the Second World War. The seven case-studies comprising this book explore the relationship between tribes and jihad in the context of the extension of Salafism in an innovative analysis that offers fresh thinking and new insight in the first study of this triangular relationship. In the introduction, Olivier Roy, a distinguished analyst of political Islam, begins by noting that ‘the local Islamic emirates pledging allegiance to either al-Qaeda (AQ) or Islamic State (IS), or to those connected to them like the Taliban in Afghanistan ... are all situated in tribal areas’ (p. 1). While all tribal leaders and tribespeople are not jihadists and not all jihadists come from a tribe, he observes that all Islamic emirates are in tribal lands. In his discussion of jihadism in tribal areas and the expansion of Salafism among tribes, Roy identifies three emerging patterns: the move to Salafism and/or jihadism often accompanies contested tribal leadership and generational or social change in the tribe; the shift is generally associated with the globalization of tribes; which enables them to enter into a regional geostrategic game and to challenge the central state from above as well as from below

Allegiance · Ancient history · Archaeology · Caliphate · Context (archaeology · Geography · Islam · Jihadism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Tribalism · Tribe · History · Law · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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