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My friend Karim has just had his first book published. It's in Farsi, but some people here would be fluent in Farsi. http://nogaam.com/book/2100/ Pourhamzavi, Karim. (2016). *ISIS: The Middle East in the Jihadists' Fire*. Nogaam. London. Cover designer: Abdulqader Balouch. This book is the first book in Farsi which considers the jihadist groups homogeneously. The first part of the book addresses the ideology of these groups in its historical context. This starts from the 14th century when the Salafi interpretation of Islam emerged and the way it was adopted as the only and official version of understanding Islam in Saudi Arabia in early 20th century. Then it goes to 20th-century development of jihadist thoughts in places like Egypt, Afghanistan, and post-2003-Iraq. The second part addresses the emergence of the jihadist movement in the shadow of third party sponsorship such as local rulers and regional and global powers who used these movements against their rivals for economic-political gains. In the third part, the book addresses the claimed sectarian element of the conflict in the Middle East. The book suggests that a large amount of evidence indicates otherwise - the essence of this conflict is not sectarian or based on Sunni vs. Shi'a. The term sectarianism is therefore used for simplifying a much more complex reality, involving proxy wars and international adversaries over the Middle East. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
