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Al-Shabaab in Somalia - The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group, 2005-2012 (Hardcover)
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Al-Shabaab in Somalia - The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group, 2005-2012 (Hardcover)
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Since early 2007 a new breed of combatants has appeared on the
streets of Mogadishu and other towns in Somalia: the 'Shabaab', or
youth, the only self-proclaimed branch of al-Qaeda to have gained
acceptance (and praise) from Ayman al-Zawahiri and 'AQ centre' in
Afghanistan. Itself an offshoot of the Islamic Courts Union, which
split in 2006, Shabaab has imposed Sharia law and is also heavily
influenced by local clan structures within Somalia itself. It
remains an infamous and widely discussed, yet little-researched and
understood, Islamist group. Hansen's remarkable book attempts to go
beyond the media headlines and simplistic analyses based on
alarmist or localist narratives and, by employing intensive field
research conducted within Somalia, as well as on the ground inter-
views with Shabaab leaders themselves, explores the history of a
remarkable organisation, one that has survived predictions of its
collapse on several occasions. Hansen portrays al-Shabaab as a
hybrid Islamist organisation that combines a strong streak of
Somali nationalism with the rhetorical obligations of international
jihadism, thereby attracting a not insignificant number of foreign
fighters to its ranks. Both these strands of Shabaab have been
inadvertently boosted by Ethiopian, American and African Union
attempts to defeat it militarily, all of which have come to nought.
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