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Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics)

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A comprehensive history of one of the most world’s deadliest jihadist groups

Boko Haram is without doubt one of the world’s deadliest jihadist groups. It has killed more than twenty thousand people and displaced more than two million in a campaign of terror that started in Nigeria but has since spread to Chad, Niger, and Cameroon as well. That is the first book to tell the full story of this West African affiliate of the Islamic State, from its beginnings within the early 2000s to its most infamous violence, including the 2014 kidnapping of 276 Nigerian schoolgirls.

Drawing on sources in Arabic and Hausa, rare documents, propaganda videos, press reports, and interviews with experts in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Niger, Alexander Thurston sheds new light on Boko Haram’s development. He shows that the group, far from being a simple or static 15 may organization, has evolved in its worldview and ideology in reaction to events. Chief among these has been Boko Haram’s escalating war with the Nigerian state and civilian vigilantes.

The book closely examines both the behavior and beliefs which can be the keys to working out Boko Haram. Putting the group’s violence within the context of the complex religious and political environment of Nigeria and the Lake Chad region, the book examines how Boko Haram pertains to states, politicians, Salafis, Sufis, Muslim civilians, and Christians. It also probes Boko Haram’s international connections, including its loose former ties to al-Qaida and its 2015 pledge of allegiance to ISIS.

An in-depth account of a group that may be menacing Africa’s most populous and richest country, the book also illuminates the dynamics of civil war in Africa and jihadist movements in other parts of the world.

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