Primary sources
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Hegghammer, Thomas. “The Rise of Muslim Foreign Fighters: Islam and the Globalization of Jihad.” International Security 35, no. 3 (2010): 53–94 (41 pages). (jihadism)
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150 pages self-chosen curriculum, for term paper.
Suggested additional reading (available in UBO in hard copy or digitally)
Abrahamian, Ervand. Khomeinism: Essays on the Islamic Republic. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Calvert, John. Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism. Columbia University Press, 2010.
Euben, Roxanne Leslie. Enemy in the Mirror: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999.
Haykel, Bernard. “On the Nature of Salafi Thought and Action.” In Global Salafism: Islam’s New Religious Movement, by Roel Meijer, 33–51. London: Hurst & Company, 2009.
Hegghammer, Thomas. “Jihadi Salafis or Revolutionaries: On Religion and Politics in the Study of Islamist Militancy.” In Global Salafism: Islam’s New Religious Movement, edited by Roel Meijer, 244–66. London: Hurst & Company, 2009.
H?igilt, Jacob, and Frida Nome. “Egyptian Salafism in Revolution.” Journal of Islamic Studies 25, no. 1 (January 1, 2014): 33–54. doi:10.1093/jis/ett056.
Hroub, Khaled, ed. Political Islam: Context Versus Ideology. Saqi Books, 2011.
International Crisis Group (2005) Understanding Islamism. Available at: https://www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-north-africa/understanding-islamism
“Islamism in the IS Age.” Project on Middle East Political Science, 2015. http://pomeps.org/2015/03/17/islamism-in-the-is-age/.
Kepel, Gilles. The Prophet and Pharaoh?: Muslim Extremism in Egypt / Gilles Kepel?; Translated by Jon Rothschild. London?: Al Saqi Books?: Distributed by Zed Books, 1985.
Lacroix, Stéphane. “Sheikhs and Politicians: Inside the New Egyptian Salafism.” Brookings institution, June 2012. http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2012/06/07-egyptian-salafism-lacroix.
Meijer, Roel. Global Salafism: Islam?s New Religious Movement. London: Hurst & Company, 2009.
Shehata, Samer, and Joshua Stacher. “The Brotherhood Goes to Parliament.” Middle East Report Online, 2006. http://www.merip.org/mer/mer240/shehata_stacher.html.
Utvik, Bj?rn Olav. “The Ikhwanization of the Salafis: Piety in the Politics of Egypt and Kuwait.” Middle East Critique 23, no. 1 (2014): 5–27. doi:10.1080/19436149.2014.896597.
Utvik, Bj?rn Olav. ?The Modernizing Force of Islamism.? In Esposito and Burgat (eds.): Modernizing Islam. London: Hurst & Company, 2003, pp. 43–67.