Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden
by Osama Bin Laden
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In bringing together the various statements issued under bin Laden's name since 1994, this volume forms part of a growing discourse that seeks to demythologize the terrorist network. Newly translated from the Arabic, annotated with a critical introduction by Islamic scholar Bruce Lawrence, this collection places the statements in their religious, historical and political context. It shows how bin Laden's views draw on and differ from other strands of radical Islamic thought; it also demonstrates how his arguments vary in degrees of consistency, and how his evasions concerning the true nature and extent of his own group, and over his own role in terrorist attacks, have contributed to the perpetuation of his personal mythology.
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Osama bin Laden is a member of the prominent Saudi bin Laden family and the founding leader of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda. Bruce Lawrence is the Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion at Duke University. He is the author of New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life, Shattering the Myth , and Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt Against the Modern Age.
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- The Vespiary Book Restoration & Bindery (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SQ0295851
- Title
- Messages to the World
- Author
- Osama Bin Laden
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1844670457
- ISBN 13
- 9781844670451
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Place of Publication
- Ny Usa
- Date Published
- 2005-11-17
- Keywords
- radical islam, manifesto, terrorism
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