Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 1. 'Ulama and Fatwas in Islam Chapter 4 2. The Mechanism of the Jihad Fatwa Chapter 5 3. The House of Islam vs. the House of War Chapter 6 4. The Doctrine of Jihad Chapter 7 5. The Defensive Jihad, an Individual Duty Chapter 8 6. Rules of Engagement Chapter 9 7. Apostates and Apostate Rulers Chapter 10 8. Palestine, Afghanistan, and Iraq Chapter 11 9. The War of the Fatwas Chapter 12 Conclusion
Shmuel Bar is a senior research fellow dealing with Middle Eastern and Islamic affairs at the Institute of Policy and Strategy in Herzliya, Israel. Bar retired (in 2003) after 30 years of service in the Israeli civil service (as an intelligence officer in the IDF and in the Office of the Prime Minister) in senior staff and operational positions, including diplomatic posting in Europe. Bar holds a Ph.D. in History of the Middle East from Tel-Aviv University and has published numerous books and papers on Middle Eastern affairs, terrorism, and radical Islam.
Drawing on Arabic sources not typically available to English
readers, Shmuel Bar outlines the way that fatwas from Muslim
religious authorities have in recent years laid a basis for
jihadism and terror. Warrant for Terror is critical reading to
understand the nature of the challenge posed by radical Islamism
today.
*Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History and the Last
Man*
If you are sick of instant experts offering sound-bite style
insight into the phenomenon of Radical Islam, then Warrant for
Terror is the right medicine for you. Through an exhaustive yet
refreshingly readable analysis of fatwas—Muslim religious
injunctions—Shmuel Bar takes us deep into the minds of both those
who issue calls for jihad and those who heed them. As a tool to
understand the logic, the rationale, and the motivation of the
enemy in the war on terror, this book is sure to be assigned in
counter-terror training courses around the world. Thankfully, the
rest of us can read it, too.
*Robert Satloff, Executive Director, The Washington Institute for
Near East Policy*
Shmuel Bar has written one of the most important and compelling
books in recent years. If you want to understand Islamic terrorism
and jihad, this is the book to read. He has written an absolutely
brilliant page-turning analysis of the dynamics underlying radical
Jihad today—and for policymakers, analysts and the public, Warrant
for Terror will provide you insights that few other books even dare
try. This is one of the best books I have ever read on the dynamics
of jihad and fatwas. Read it to be educated and to truly
understand. Ignore it at your peril. Dr. Bar has performed a
wonderful public service by compiling and analyzing the fatwas for
us. This book is a bench mark in the literature on Jihad.
*Steven Emerson, Executive Director, The Investigative Project on
Terrorism*
Non-Muslims rarely pay attention to the religious struggle within
Islam. They must, urgently. Radical clerics, wielding the deadly
accusation of apostacy, have silenced most mainstream Muslim
clerics and regimes in the Muslim world on the issues of jihad and
terrorism. We are at serious risk of having hundreds of millions of
religiously-driven enemies and deferential followers.
*R. James Woolsey, former Director of the CIA; Chairman, Woolsey
Partners LLC*
Bar has crafted an important book. This short volume is a must-read
for anyone disturbed by the government and media's failure to truly
elucidate the underpinnings of the terrorism threat that's here to
stay.
*The Miami Herald*
Shmuel Bar offers a much needed account of the religious logic that
inspires and justifies Islamic radicalism and its terrorist
manifestations. His sections on the extremists legal justifications
for attacking Americans, fellow Muslims, and particularly Israel
are enlightening and useful for anyone who has wondered how
religious thinking can be used to support terrorism.
*Salt Lake Tribune*
Warrant for Terror offers many insights.
*The Bookwatch*
Shmuel Bar offers a much-needed account of the religious logic that
inspires and justifies Islamic radicalism and its terrorist
manifestations...His conclusion, that the war of ideas within the
Muslim world is primarily a religious war, should be taken
seriously.
*The Dallas Morning News*
Since the author of this hard-hitting book is Israeli, some may
dismiss it out of hand, as politically motivated. However, the
depth of research, drawn from Arabic sources, should cause every
reader to pay attention. It is invaluable for understanding the
reasons for radical Islamism in the 21st century.
*Middle East Journal*
This is an important book, its limpid prose matching the authority
Bar brings to a subject about which we cannot afford to be
ignorant.
*Literary Review*
It is invaluable for understanding the reasons for radical Islamism
in the 21st century. Bar drives home the point that only Muslims
can turn the tide....Warrant for Terror is a compelling book.
*Middle East Journal*
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