Jihadism

Jihad (struggle) is a holy war to defend Islam against non-believers and non-Muslims. Jihadists are holy warriors. The intellectual father of jihadist Islamism, Sayyid Qutb, who was executed in Cairo in 1966, made the message crystal clear: Jihadism (jihadist terrorism) is a “permanent Islamic world revolution” aimed at decentering the West to establish “Hakimiyyat Allah,” or God’s rule, on a global scale. This book narrates the evolution of jihadism (jihadist terrorism) in the past centuries an