No topic has gripped the public imagination so dramatically as the
spectre of global jihadism. While much has been said about the way
jihadists behave, their ideology remains poorly understood.
Shiraz Maher charts the intellectual underpinnings of Salafi-jihadism
from its origins in the mountains of the Hindu Kush to the jihadist
insurgencies of the 1990s and the 9/11 wars. His groundbreaking
introduction to Salafi-jihadism recalibrates our understanding of the
ideas underpinning one of the most destructive political philosophies of
our time.