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Item An Early Muslim Daniel Apocalypse(Brill, 2002-01) Cook, DavidItem Apocalypse and Identity: Ibn Al-Munadi and Tenth Century Baghdad(McGill University, 2011) Cook, DavidItem Apostasy from Islam: A Historical Perspective(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2006) Cook, DavidItem Boko Haram: A Prognosis(2011) Cook, David; James A. Baker III Institute for Public PolicyItem Hadith, Authority and the End of the World: Traditions in Modern Muslim Apocalyptic Literature(Istituto per l'Oriente C. A. Nallino, 2002) Cook, DavidItem Islamism and Jihadism: The Transformation of Classical Notions of Jihad into an Ideology of Terrorism(Routledge, 2009-06) Cook, DavidContemporary jihad is the lineal descendant of classical jihad theory as modified by contemporary radical Islam. It has expressions in both Sunni and Shi‘ite Islam, but differs from the classical material in that the targets allowable for jihad are not states but smaller groups or even individuals. The article traces the history of this development.Item Messianism in the Mid-11th/17th Century as Exemplified by Al-Barzanji (1040-1103/1630-1691)(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007) Cook, DavidItem Embargo Old Reformers, New Dissidents: Continuity and Change in the Intellectual History of Islamic Thought, Reform and Jihad in Nigeria from the Late 18th to Early 21st Centuries(2022-08-12) Kassim, Abdulbasit; Cook, DavidThe areas of Hausaland, Bornu, and other regions of central Bilād al-Sūdān that comprise today's Nigeria have experienced successive waves of Islamization, Islamic reform, counter-reform, dissidence, rebellion, and jihad. Since the advent of European colonial conquest in the twentieth century, contemporary Muslim reformers have often presented themselves as heirs of the eighteenth-century revivalist movements that waged jihad and established theocratic states across West Africa. Through powerful expressions of mourning, emotional articulation of grief over the violent destruction of the Islamic caliphate in 1903, and nostalgic reckoning with the haunting memories of the profound sense of cultural, moral, and religious loss to a new colonial order, the leaders of contemporary movements of Islamic reform underpin their ideas with the campaign to 'restore' Islamic civilization to its pristine form, implement the sharīʿa without secular inhibitions, and replace colonial and post-colonial nation-states with defunct African Islamic empire-states. Besides the numerical interval between the eighteenth and the twenty-first centuries, the religious thinkers that led the movements of Islamic reform and jihad interacted and contended with distinctive intellectual genealogies and socio-political contexts. Yet, the old reformers and new dissidents separated across the gulf of time wrestled and engaged with similar ideational repertoires —in particular ideas about what constitutes al-ʿaqāʾid al-ṣaḥīḥa (authentic Islamic creeds), takfīr (excommunication), al-walāʾ wa al-barāʾ (loyalty and disavowal), al-aḥkām al-Sulṭāniyyah (theory of government), tajdīd (Islamic reform), jihad and istirqāq (slavery). This dissertation asks two essential questions: what doctrinal exegesis, discursive traditions, and textual hermeneutics did the old reformers and new dissidents offer in their engagement with the ideas that have informed reformist debates? What are the continuities and changes in the history of ideas that have shaped the longue durée of Islamic thought, reform, and jihad? This dissertation provides a window into the common and divergent methodologies of wide-ranging groups of reformers claiming the mantle of reform and jihad, but it does so by rejecting the historiographical binary of a reformist past, either disentangled from the present or tethered teleologically to it. Previous studies have often focused either on specific intellectual figures or religious movements, sometimes as a stand-alone study or as part of a more comprehensive historical scholarship. Instead, this dissertation provides an analytical intervention that illuminates the canonical ideations that Islamic reformers and dissidents in Nigeria have debated, contested, and appropriated to legitimize their projects of reform. Throughout the six chapters of this dissertation, I tracked and investigated how the ideas that informed reformist debates and agendas ebbed, flowed, and changed in the longue durée. This study offers important scholarly contributions to Islamic studies, African studies, intellectual history, history of religion, political theory, and textual anthropology. First, as Nigeria is currently in the throes of a persistent religious rebellion hinged upon the emotive rhetoric of a lost caliphate, this study sheds important light on the poorly understood historical background of these present tensions. Second, the study provides the language and analytical template to understand the thought processes, textual practices, discursive traditions, and doctrinal interpretations of those who claim the mantle of reform and jihad. Third, this study also demonstrates the extent to which new dissidents seek legitimacy through invocations of the intellectual heritage of African Muslims' practices and thoughts passed down by previous reformist and clerical orders. Lastly, and most importantly, this study challenges the normative scholarly view that Muslim reformers and dissidents in Nigeria and the broader Sahel are solely inspired and shaped by Middle Eastern theological and ideological currents. Instead, this study unearths the local roots of religious discontent and the different layers of ‘glocal’ theological hybridization that characterized the several waves of rebellion, dissent, and jihad in Nigeria from the late eighteenth to the early twenty-first centuries.Item The recovery of radical Islam in the wake of the defeat of the Taliban(Routledge, 2003) Cook, DavidThis article analyses the intellectual and religious processes through which radical Islam has had to confront its defeat in Afghanistan and rebuild during the period since that time, including paradigms of battle, dreams and martyrologies and apocalyptic readings of history and current events.Item Rehabilitiation of Radicals(2010-10) Cook, David; James A. Baker III Institute for Public PolicyIn the past 10 years, the rehabilitation of Muslim radicals has become a pressing issue. Great numbers of radicals have passed in and out of various incarcerating institutions and are returned to their societies where they frequently rejoin radical groups, sometimes more radicalized and technically proficient than they were prior to their incarceration. Both Muslim and non-Muslim governments have sought different methods to rehabilitate radicals, ranging from arranging debates between radicals and mainstream Muslim religious elite to confronting them with betrayals and denunciations by relatives, friends, and associates. There are also full-scale ﾓreeducationﾔ camps. This policy paper will seek to evaluate these methodologies and propose for the United States a workable policy for re-integrating radicals into society, thus defusing the power of recidivismItem Review of Ahmed Rashid's Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia(Oxford University Press, 2003) Cook, DavidItem Review of Anat Berko's The Past to Paradise: The Inner World of Suicide Bombers and their Dispatchers(Routledge, 2008-12) Cook, DavidItem Review of Geoffrey Regan's First Crusader: Byzantium's Holy Wars(Cambridge University Press, 2004-11) Cook, DavidItem Review of Mercedes Garcia-Arenal's Messianism and Puritanical Reform: Mahdis of the Muslim West(Cambridge University Press, 2008) Cook, DavidItem Review of Mia Bloom's Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror(Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society, 2007) Cook, DavidItem Review of Michael Bonner's Jihad in Islamic History: Doctrines and Practice(Middle East Institute, 2007) Cook, DavidItem Review of Russell Gmirkin's Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus(Wiley, 2007-01) Cook, DavidItem Suicide Attacks or "Martyrdom Operations" in Contemporary Jihad Literature(University of California Press, 2002-10) Cook, DavidMartyrdom operations are a factor in contemporary radical Islam. These operations have their roots in classical jihad literature, but fundamentally are a by-product of widespread frustration and perceived humiliations on the part of Muslims. The attacks of 11 September 2001 are rooted within this tradition.Item Tamim al-Dari(Cambridge University Press, 1998) Cook, DavidItem The Ashab Al-Ukhdud: History and Hadith in a Martyrological Sequence(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2008) Cook, David