Buku Hattin 1187: Kemenangan Terakbar Shalahuddin menyajikan kajian mendalam mengenai Pertempuran Hattin, salah satu titik balik paling menentukan dalam Perang Salib. Melalui analisis sejarah yang akurat dan didukung ilustrasi serta peta strategis, David Nicolle menggambarkan bagaimana Shalahuddin Al-Ayyubi berhasil menyatukan kekuatan Muslim dan menaklukkan pasukan Tentara Salib dalam pertempu…
Since September 11, Al Qaeda has been portrayed as an Islamist front united in armed struggle, or jihad, against the Christian West. However, as the historian and commentator Fawaz A. Gerges argues, the reality is rather different and more complex. In fact, Al Qaeda represents a minority within the jihadist movement, and its strategies have been vehemently criticized and opposed by religious na…
Krisis Islam mencakup bahasan sejarah sejak abad XIII, namun secara khusus buku ini menggambarkan peristiwa- peristiwa utama di abad ke-20 mulai dari pembentukan negara Israel, Perang Dingin, Revolusi Iran, kekalahan Soviet di Afghanistan, Perang Teluk, hingga serangan 11 September di Amerika Serikat
Meningkatnya radikalisme agama dan terorisme kini muncul sebagai ancaman nyata di banyak negara, terutama Indonesia, negara yang majemuk dengan kondisi geografis yang rawan dari ancaman kehadiran teroris lintas-negara atau Foreign Terorist Fighters (FTFs). Lingkungan strategis yang berubah cepat juga telah menimbulkan tantangan baru bagi keamanan dan pertahanan nasional. Ketidakadilan, kesenjan…
In this fascinating book, the author describes the debates and controversies. With a concise description but does not ignore the truth, this book reveals the veil that covers the process of the Initiatives to Cease Violence and the Revisions of al-Jihad. Based on interviews from the first source, witnessed events directly when a prisoner and has proximity to the initiators, as well as supported…
Understanding Terror Networks combines Sageman's scrutiny of sources, personal acquaintance with Islamic fundamentalists, deep appreciation of history, and effective application of network theory, modeling, and forensic psychology. Sageman's unique research allows him to go beyond available academic studies, which are light on facts, and journalistic narratives, which are devoid of theory. The …
According to the author the greatest danger for Americans confronting the Islamist threat is to believe—at the urging of U.S. leaders—that Muslims attack us for what we are and what we think rather than for what we do. Blustering political rhetoric “informs” the public that the Islamists are offended by the Western world’s democratic freedoms, civil liberties, inter-mingling of gender…
An ex-SAS soldier relates his experiences as the first Western agent to assist Afghanistan's Mujahideen in their fight against the invading Soviet army during the 1980s, describing covert operations and reconnaissance missions inside Afghanistan.
Who is Osama bin Laden—the only terrorist leader ever to have declared a holy war? What drives him and those he leads to hate a West that helped enrich and arm them? Bin Laden’s name has been linked to a number of incidents that have cost Americans their lives, including the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 and the destruction of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Now, he …
In recent years, the world order has been rocked by an explosive, unexpected and extraordinary phenomenon: political Islam. Beginning in the early 1970s, militants revolted against the regimes in power across the Muslim world and exacerbated political conflicts internationally. Their jihad-or 'Holy Struggle - aimed to establish a global Islamic state based solely on a strict interpretation of t…