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By al-Gama'ah al-Islamiyah, Prof. Sherman Jackson

Formerly one of many biggest and so much militant Islamic businesses within the heart East, Egypt’s al-Gama‘ah al-Islamiyah is thought to have performed an instrumental function in different acts of world terrorism, together with the assassination of President Anwar Sadat and the 1993 global alternate middle bombing. In later years, in spite of the fact that, the association issued a shocking renunciation of violence, repudiating its former ideology and exchanging it with a shari‘ah-based knowing and evaluate of the aim and correct program of jihad.
  
This key manifesto of contemporary Islamist concept is now to be had to an English-speaking viewers in an eminently readable translation by means of famous Islamic student Sherman A. Jackson. not like different Western and Muslim opinions of violent extremism, this crucial paintings emerges from in the circulate of center jap Islamic activism, either hard and enriching winning notions in regards to the function of Islamists in scuffling with the scourge of extremist politics, blind anti-Westernism, and, unluckily, wayward jihad.

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As armed confrontation) as the singular response to the challenge of America and the West. Moreover, al-Qa¯‘idah seems confident that success in this regard, that is, on the battlefield, will be sufficient to promote and preserve the interests of Islam. 120 For it understands the interests of Islam to go beyond the mere accumulation and exercise of power. And it is unwilling to allow the ostensibly unqualified duty to engage in jihad to outstrip or undermine the broader aims and objectives of the religion itself, chief among these being, again, to connect people to their Lord and direct them to the path of God.

A¯fiz. , the repressive atmosphere at al-Wa¯dī al-Jadīd actually had the effect of forestalling his endorsement of the Initiative. ”81 Again, this is not to say that torture, repression, and other disincentives would not cumulatively assert some effect on individuals’ thinking. But that it would unilaterally and on a broad scale produce in ideologically committed, battle-hardened, incarcerated Egyptian Islamists an untempered, Pavlovian-type response calls, I think, for reconsideration. 82 24 Introduction As for the role of religiosity, al-‘Awwa¯ reminds us in her study that the primary motivation behind members’ joining the Gama¯‘ah to begin with was religious conviction.

And whomever God leads astray,1 none can guide. I bear witness that there is no god except God, Who is one and has no partner.  ammad is His servant and His messenger. O you who believe, be conscious of God as fully as you ought, and die not unless you are in a state of submission to God [3:102]. O people, be 51 conscious of your Lord Who created you from a single soul and from it created its mate and brought forth men and women in multitudes.

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