Brynjar Lia
Author of Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of Al Qaeda Strategist Abu Mus'ab Al-Suri
About the Author
Brynjar Lia is a Research Professor at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment in Kjeller, Norway.
Works by Brynjar Lia
Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of Al Qaeda Strategist Abu Mus'ab Al-Suri (2007) 39 copies, 1 review
The Society of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt: The Rise of an Islamic Mass Movement 1928-1942 (1998) 16 copies
Associated Works
Global Salafism: Islam's New Religious Movement (2009) — Author, some editions — 26 copies, 1 review
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1966-07-14
- Gender
- male
- Organizations
- Norwegian Defence Research Establishment
- Short biography
- Dr Philos Brynjar Lia is an Adjunct Research Professor (Professor II) at the Norwegian Defense Research Est. (FFI). Trained in Russian, Arabic and Middle Eastern studies, Dr Lia obtained his PhD in contemporary Middle Eastern history at the University of Oslo. He was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University from 2001-2, has spent many years in the Middle East, and has been interviewed and/or cited on terrorism issues by the BBC, The New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Time Magazine, CNN.com, and a number of other international media outlets. Dr Lia is the author of a number of acclaimed books on terrorism, Islamism and the Middle East. They include: The Society of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt 1928-42 (Ithaca Press, 1998); Globalisation and the Future of Terrorism: Patterns and Preditions (Routledge, 2005); A Police Force without a State: A History of the Palestinian Security Forces in the West Bank and Gaza (Ithaca Press, 2006); Building Arafat’s Police: The Politics of International Police Assistance in the Palestinian Territories After the Oslo Agreement (Ithaca Press, 2007), and Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of al-Qaida Strategist Abu Mus'ab al-Suri (London and NY: Hurst & Oxford Univ. Press, 2007/8).
http://www.jihadismstudies.net/ - Nationality
- Norway
- Associated Place (for map)
- Norway
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Reviews
With more than 35 years experience of jihadist activism, Abu Mus'ab al-Suri remains the foremost theoretician in the global jihadist movement today, despite his capture in Pakistan in late 2005. After having participated in the founding of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in 1988, al-Suri, whose real name is Mustafa Sethmarian Nasar, trained a whole generation of young jihadis at his camps in Afghanistan. When he moved back to Spain in the early 1990s, al-Suri took part in establishing Al-Qaeda show more networks in Europe. In the mid-1990s, he rose to prominence in jihadi circles as editor of the London-based bulletin of the Algerian Groupe Islamique Armee, the most deadly Islamist terrorist group operating in Europe at the time. Al-Suri later formed his own media centre and training camp in Taleban-ruled Afghanistan, to which he returned in 1998. Building on his extensive military experience from the Syrian Islamist insurgency in the early 1980s, he contributed decisively to formulating Al-Qaeda's global warfare strategy. Throughout his writings there is a desire to learn from past mistakes and rectify the course of the jihadi movement. His 1,600 page masterpiece, "The Global Islamic Resistance Call", outlines a broad strategy for the coming generation of Al-Qaeda, with a keen eye for the practical implementation of jihadi guerrilla warfare theories. His ideas of how to maximise the political impact of jihadi violence and how to build autonomous cells for 'individualised terrorism' have inspired many jihadi militants of today. The book includes a translation of two key chapters from al-Suri's seminal work "The Global Islamic Resistance Call." show less
Statistics
- Works
- 8
- Also by
- 1
- Members
- 70
- Popularity
- #248,178
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 1
- ISBNs
- 20
- Languages
- 1
