This brief is meant to serve as an introduction to global jihadism, by examining the al-Qa'ida centric movement from multiple vantage points, including grand historical, theological, political, virtual and organizational.
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Conceptual frameworks for understanding global jihadism braniff
1. Conceptual Frameworks for
Understanding Global Jihadism
Bill Braniff
Executive Director, START
braniff@start.umd.edu
www.start.umd.edu
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Historical Context: Framing the Grievance
The Salaf Crisis and Response
Mongol Invasion Ibn Taymiyya
Mohammad ibn
Abd al-Wahhab
Sayyid Qutb
Decline of the
Ottoman Empire
Post-Colonial
Failures
Prophet Muhammad
1. Abu Bakr
2. Umar
3. Uthman
4. Ali
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Theological Context: Situating al-Qa’ida
ISLAM
ISLAMISM
SUNNISM
VIOLENT
JIHADISM
FUNDAMENTALISM
AQ CORE
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Political Context: The Competitive Landscape
Islamism
Violent
Activism
Local
Jihadism
GSPC
Irredentist
Jihadism
LeT
Global
Jihadism
al-Qa’ida
Political
Activism
Hizb ut-
Tahrir
Muslim
Brotherhood
Missionary
Activism
Tablighi
Jama’at
AQIM
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Virtual Context: Landscape of the e-Jihad
Media
Distribution
Media
Production
Companies
Indi Blogs Key Ideologues
Web
Forums
GIMF
The Social
Network
Al-Fajr
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Evolution of the Global Jihad
Local Jihad
SE Asia
North Africa
Central Asia
HoA
Balkans
Chechnya
Egypt
Jordan
Saudi Arabia
AQ Associated Groups
AQ Affiliated Groups
AQ Core
Anti-Soviet Jihad
MAK est. AQ est.
1800s-1900s 1979 1988 2001
ie., ASG, LeT, GSPC
ie., AQI, AQAP, AQIM
AQ Inspired
Global
AQ Network
Global
1984 2010
Irredentist Jihad
Palestine
Kashmir
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Conceptualizing Global Jihadism
The Franchise
Affiliates Networked
Associated
Organizations
AQ Core
The Idea
Autonomous
Adherents
Adherents
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The Franchise The Idea
Associated
Organizations
Autonomous
Adherents
American
Shabaab
The Ummah
JIS
Little rock
FT Dix 6
Zazi Smadi
Finton
Headley
NoVa
MAJ Hassan
AQ Core
Five Guys
Newburgh
Affiliated
Organizations
Networked
Adherents Boyds
Abdulmutallab
Vinas
Mehana
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Animating the Model
Conflict Zone
Economy
Propaganda
Trained Fighters
Drugs
$, Men, Weapons
Org C
Organizational
Infrastructure
Org B
Conflict
Zone 2
Conflict
Zone 3
Narratives:
• Othering
• Victimization
• Resistance
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Key Take-Aways
• AQ has inherited a militant and fundamentalist ideology
which surfaces at moments of crisis, which it interprets and
amplifies
• AQ sits on the periphery of Islam, cloaking itself in
unassailable Sunni terms, but acting outside of Sunnism
• AQ coexists with more popular Islamist actors with which it
frequently competes at the organizational level, and
sometimes collaborates with at the individual level
• AQ is one (elitist) voice among a very crowded virtual
landscape, making for a more populist Global Jihad
• The Global Jihad is a multi-faceted and dynamic
phenomenon in which AQ is one central player