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The Audacious Ascetic: What Osama Bin Laden´s Sound Archive Reveals About al-Qa´ida
Flagg Miller
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Description for The Audacious Ascetic: What Osama Bin Laden´s Sound Archive Reveals About al-Qa´ida
Paperback. This revelatory investigation of Bin Laden's tape archive suggests that much of the received wisdom about al-Qa'ida's early years has to be reconsidered in light of this new evidence. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 3JM; JFSR2; JPFR; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 217 x 31. Weight in Grams: 618.
In late 2002, over 1500 audiotapes were discovered in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in a house once occupied by Osama bin Laden. The Audacious Ascetic is the first book to explore this extraordinary archive. It details how Islamic cultural, legal, theological and linguistic vocabularies shaped militants' understandings of al-Qa'ida, and, more controversially, challenges the notion that the group's original adversary was America and the 'far enemy'. Miller argues that Western security agencies' 'management' of Bin Laden's growing reputation went awry. When magnified through global media coverage, narratives of al-Qa'ida's coherence were exploited by Osama and his militant supporters for their own ends. ... Read more
In late 2002, over 1500 audiotapes were discovered in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in a house once occupied by Osama bin Laden. The Audacious Ascetic is the first book to explore this extraordinary archive. It details how Islamic cultural, legal, theological and linguistic vocabularies shaped militants' understandings of al-Qa'ida, and, more controversially, challenges the notion that the group's original adversary was America and the 'far enemy'. Miller argues that Western security agencies' 'management' of Bin Laden's growing reputation went awry. When magnified through global media coverage, narratives of al-Qa'ida's coherence were exploited by Osama and his militant supporters for their own ends. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849044677
SKU
V9781849044677
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About Flagg Miller
Flagg Miller is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Davis. Trained as a linguistic anthropologist, his first book, The Moral Resonance of Arab Media: Audio-cassette Poetry and Culture in Yemen (Harvard University Press, 2007), examined how Yemenis have used traditional poetry and new media technologies to envision a productive relationship between tribalism and progressive Muslim reform. ... Read more
Reviews for The Audacious Ascetic: What Osama Bin Laden´s Sound Archive Reveals About al-Qa´ida
The story of how [Bin Laden] came to be the west's ultimate 'ascetic adversary' and how the US expanded its security footprint into the Islamic world, needs to be told. Miller has succeeded.
Prospect
Selectively transcribed and interpreted … [the tapes] allow us to eavesdrop on Bin Laden during the 1990s as he rallied his followers, first to ... Read more
Prospect
Selectively transcribed and interpreted … [the tapes] allow us to eavesdrop on Bin Laden during the 1990s as he rallied his followers, first to ... Read more