Sources: Islamic State, ISIS, Salafism, Jihadism

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Resources:

• Bibliography: Islamic State (Part 2) Judith Tinnes
• Bibliography: Islamic State (Part 1) Judith Tinnes
• Counter Extremism Project: ISIS
• Counterextremism.org
• Jihadology.net

Reports:

2016

• ISIS and Nusra in Turkey: Jihadist recruitment and Ankara’s response (Monika Marks – Institute for Strategic Dialogue – 2016) (pdf)
• Criminal Pasts, Terrorist Futures: European Jihadists and the New Crime-Terror Nexus (Rajan Basra, Peter R. Neumann, and Claudia Brunner – ICSR – 2016) (pdf)
• Not Just the Caliphate: Exploring the Jihadist Scene in America (Sarah Gilkes – 2016) (pdf)
• Time, Temporality and Global Politics – an E-IR Edited Collection. (Andrew Hom, Christopher McIntosh, Alasdair McKay, and Liam Stockdale – 15.07.2016)
• The Resilience of the Islamic State / Die Widerstandsfähigkeit des Islamischen Staates (Basma Salama – Bundesheer (Austria) – 2016) (pdf)
• The Children of Islamic State (Noman Benotman & Nikita Malik – Quilliam Foundation – 2016) (pdf)
• Exploiting Disorder: al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (Crisis Group Special Report 14 – 2016) (pdf)
• The Islamic State. How Viable is it? (Yoram Schweitzer – Omar Einav) (pdf)
• Evolving Methodologies in the Study of Islamism (POMEPS Studies 17 – 2016) (pdf)
• U.S. Grand Strategy: Destroying ISIS and al Qaeda, Report One: AL Qaeda and ISIS: Existential Threats to the U.S. and Europe (2016) (pdf)
• Jihad instead of Democracy? Tunisia’s Marginalised Youth Islamist Terrorism (Edmund Ratka & Marie-Christine Roux – KAS – 2016) (pdf)

2015

• Islamic State Senior Leadership: Whos Who (2015) (pdf)
• Fighters with IS-A European Perspective ( Alex P. Schmid & Judith Tinnes – ICCT – 2015) (pdf)
• Islamic State vs. Al-Qaeda. Strategic Dimensions of a patricial conflict (Daveed Garteinstein-Ross & Jason Fritz & Bridget Moreng & Nathaniel Barr – 2015) (pdf)
• ISIS: The Threat to the United States. ThreatKnowledgeGroup Special Report (Sebastian L. Gorka & Katharine C. Gorka) (pdf)
• Inside the Jihadi Mind (Emman El-Badawy & Milo Comerford & Peter Welby – Tony Blair Faith Foundation – 2015) (pdf)
• Black flag rising: ISIL in Southeast Asia and Australia (Peter Chalk – 2015) (pdf)
• How “Islamic State” Recruits Fighters in Germany. Approaches to Effectively Preventing Islamist Radicalisation (Thomas Volk – 2015) (pdf)
• Salafi Ideas on State-Building Before and After the Rise of the Islamic State (Joas Wagemakers – 2015) (pdf)
• ISIS: The Terrorist Group That Would Be a State – US Naval War College (Michael W. S. Ryan – 2015) (pdf)
• ISIS in the West. The New Faces on Extremism (Peter Bergen – 2015) (pdf)
• The “Islamic State” and U.S. Policy (Christopher M. Blanchard / Carla E. Humud – 18.11.2015) (pdf)
• Victims, Perpetrators, Assets: The Narratives of Islamic State Defectors (Peter R. Neumann – 2015) (pdf)
• The Islamic State through the regional lens (Julien Barnes-Dacey & Ellie Geranmayeh & Daniel Levy – 2015) (pdf)
• In nations with significant Muslim populations, much disdain for ISIS (Jacob Poushter – 17.11.2015)
• The rise of religious radicalism in the Arab worldd: Significance, Implications and Counter-Strategies (2015) (pdf)
• The First Defector: Abu Sulayman al-Utaybi, the Islamic State, and al-Qa`ida (2015/10) (pdf)
• Challenging the Narrative of the “Islamic State” (Alex P. Schmid – 6/2015) (pdf)
• Islamic State franchising. Tribes, transnational jihadi networks and generational shifts (Rivka Azoulay – 2015) (pdf)
• Tailored Online Interventions: The Islamic State’s Recruitment Strategy (2015) (pdf)
• The Ankara Bombings and the Islamic State’s Turkey Strategy (Metin Gürcan – 2015) (pdf)
• Jihadism in Africa. Local Causes, Regional Expansion, International Alliances (Guido Steinberg & Annette Weber – Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik – 2015) (pdf)
• The Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) – Clarion Project (10.05.2015) (pdf)
• From Paper State to Caliphate: The Ideology of the Islamic State (Cole Bunzel – Brookings Institution – 19.03.2015) (pdf)
• Islamism in the Age of IS (POMEPS Studies – 2015) (pdf)
• Women of the Islamic State (Quilliam Foundation – 2015) (pdf)
• The Impact of the Islamic State in Asia (Ahmed S. Hashim – 2015) (pdf)
• The Islamic State and Information Warfare: Defeating ISIS and the Broader Global Jihadist Movement (ThreatKnowledgeGroup Special Report – 2015) (pdf)

2014

• From Al-Qaida Affiliate to the Rise of the Islamic Caliphate: The Evolution of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) (Ahmed S. Hashim – RSIS – 2014) (pdf)
• Bordering on Terrorism: Turkey’s Syria Policy and the Rise of the Islamic State (Jonathan Schanzer & Merve Tahiroglu (2014) (pdf)
• The New Jihadism A Global Snapshot (Peter R. Neumann – ICSR – 2014) (pdf)
• A Persistent Threat: The Evolution of al Qa’ida and Other Salafi Jihadists (Seth G. Jones – 2014) (pdf)
• The Islamic State (Richard Barrett – 2014) (pdf)
• Islamic State: The Changing Face of Modern Jihadism (Erin Marie Saltman & Charlie Winter – Quilliam Foundation – 2015) (pdf)
• The Tourniquet A Strategy for Defeating the Islamic State and Saving Syria and Iraq (Marc Lynch – 2014) (pdf)
• Proling the Islamic State (Charles Lister – 13.11.2014) (pdf)
• Salafi-jihadists in Syria: A Social Movement Theory Analysis (Helle Hjordt Hansen) (pdf)
• Islamic State: The Economy-Based Terrorist Funding (Jean-Charles Brisard and Damien Martinez – 2014) (pdf)
• Escape from hell – Torture, sexual slavery in Islamic State Capitivity in Iraq (Amnesty International – 2014) (pdf)
• The Group That Calls Itself a State: Understanding the Evolution and Challenges of the Islamic State (2014) (pdf)
• Managing a Transnational Insurgency: The Islamic State of Iraq’s “Paper Trail,” 2005-2010 (2014) (pdf)
• The al-Nusra Front: From Formation to Dissension (Hamza Mustapha – 2014) (pdf)

2013

• Jihadi Discourse in the Wake of the Arab Spring (2013) (pdf)
• The Elevation of Salafi Thought into an Ideology (Ibrahim Ramadan Mardini – 2013) (pdf)

2012

• Jihad in Syria (Elisabeth O’Bagy – Middle East Security Report – 2012) (pdf)

2010

• Deradicalizing Islamist Extremists (Angel Rabasa & Stacie L. Pettyjohn & Jeremy J. Ghez & Christopher Boucek – RAND Corporation – 2010) (pdf)

2009

• Deadly Vanguards. A Study of al-Qa’ida’s Violence Against Muslims (2009) (pdf)
• Dysfunction and Decline. Lessons Learned From Inside Al-Qa`ida in Iraq (2009) (pdf)

2008

• Recruitment and Mobilisation for the Islamist Militant Movement in Europe (King’s College London – 2008) (pdf)

2006

• Beyond al-Qaeda: (2), The Outer Rings of the Terrorist Universe (Angel Rabasa & Peter Chalk & Kim Cragin & Sara A. Daly & Heather S. Gregg & Theodore W. Karasik & Kevin A. O’Brien & William Rosenau – RAND Corporation – 2006) (pdf)
• Beyond al-Qaeda: (1), The Global Jihadist Movement (Angel Rabasa & Peter Chalk & Kim Cragin & Sara A. Daly & Heather S. Gregg & Theodore W. Karasik & Kevin A. O’Brien & William Rosenau – RAND Corporation – 2006) (pdf)

2004

• From dawa to jihad The various threats from radical Islam to the democratic legal order (2004) (pdf)

2002

• Jihad Online: Islamic Terrorists and the Internet (ADL – 2002) (pdf)

Article:

2017

2016

• Refuting Da’esh properly: a critical review of the “Open Letter to Baghdadi” (Fajri Matahati Muhammadin – 2016)
• The World According to ISIS (Fawaz A. Gerges – 18.03.2016)

2015

• Is There a Method to ISIS’s Madness? (Shadi Hamid – 23.11.2015)
• The Islamic State (Zachary Laub – 16.11.2015)
• The Impact of ISIS on Global Salafism and South Asian Jihad (Thomas F. Lynch III – 15.08.2015)
• The Islamic State’s (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine (2014)
• What ISIS Really Wants (Graeme Wood – 2015/3)
• Beyond Authenticity: ISIS and the Islamic Legal Tradition (Sohaira Siddiqui – 24.02.2015)
• Jihadi-Salafi views of the Islamic State (Joas Wagemakers – 27.01.2015)
• Presenting the Glossy Look of Warfare in Cyberspace. The Islamic State’s Magazine Dabiq (Christoph Günther – 2015)

Archives:

• Muslim sources speaking out against terrorism
• Salafismus ante portas: Materialsammlung (German)
• Selefilik ve Cihatçılık Arşivi (Turkish)