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"Jihadi Salafis or Revolutionaries: On Religion and Politics in the Study of Islamist Militancy", in R Meijer (ed), Global Salafism: Islam's New Religious Movement, (London/New York: Hurst/Columbia University Press, 2009), pp. 244-266. By Thomas Hegghammer

"The Ideological Hybridization of Jihadi Groups", Current Trends in Islamist Ideology 9 (November 2009). By Thomas Hegghammer
 
“Why Robert Pape is right: jihadi ideological cleavages and patterns of suicide bombings”. Paper presented by Thomas Hegghammer at “Understanding Jihadism: Origins, Evolution, and Future Perspectives”, a round-table seminar jointly organized by the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Sciences Po (France) and Combating Terrorism Center/West Point (USA) in Oslo on 19-21 March 2009. 
 
"Whither Al-Qaida? Assessing Its Ideological Evolution and Its Struggle to Stay Relevant in Local Insurgencies"
FFI's Terrorism Research Group organised a panel at The Annual International Studies Association Convention (ISA) in New York, 14-18 February 2009, during which the following papers were presented:
"Al-Qaida’s Appeal: Understanding its Unique Selling Points". By Brynjar Lia. Published in Perspectives on Terrorism, 2, 8 (May 2008): 3-10.
 
"Osama bin Laden's true priorities". By Thomas Hegghammer. Op-ed article in The Guardian, 3 Dec 2007.
 
"Jihadi studies: The obstacles to understanding radical Islam and the opportunities to know it better". By Thomas Hegghammer. Published in The Times Literary Supplement, 2 April 2008.
 
"Global Jihadism After the Iraq War". By Thomas Hegghammer. Published in The Middle East Journal, vol. 60 no. 1 (2006), pp. 11-32 
 
"'Destructive Doctrinairians': Abu Mus‘ab al-Suri's Critique of the Salafis in the Jihadi Current" in Roel Meijer (ed) Global Salafism: Islam’s New Religious Movement (London: Hurst, 2009), pp. 249-268.
 
"Abu Mus'ab al-Suri's Critique of Hard Line Salafists in the Jihadist Current". By Brynjar Lia. Published in CTC Sentinel, Volume.1, Issue.1, 18 December 2007.
 
"Osama bin Ladens taler og skrifter: Eit etterord". Av Brynjar Lia. Publisert i Budskap til verden: Osama bin Ladens ytringer. Redigert og presentert av Bruce Lawrence. (Oslo: L.S.P. Forlag, 2007), pp.507-523.
 
"Dokumentasjon om al-Qaida - intervjuer, kommunikéer og andre primærkilder, 1990-2002". By Thomas Hegghammer. Published as FFI Research Report No.2002/01393.
 
"Irak-konflikten i radikal islamistisk ideologi". By Thomas Hegghammer. Published in Internasjonal Politikk, vol. 63 no. 4 (2005), pp. 351-370
 
 
"Jihadism in Western Europe After the Invasion of Iraq: Tracing Motivational Influences from the Iraq War on Jihadist Terrorism in Western Europe". By Petter Nesser. Published in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Volume 29, Number 4, June 2006 , pp. 323-342.
 
"Jihad in Europe: Post-millennium patterns of jihadist terrorism in Western Europe". By Petter Nesser. Presentation at "The Roots of Terrorism in Europe"-conference hosted by the Danish Security Intelligence Service in May 2005.
 
"Betraktninger om al-Qaidas ideologiske utvikling". Av Thomas Hegghammer. Publisert som FFI Notat No.2004/00811.
 
"En oversikt over islamistiske terroristgrupper". Av Thomas Hegghammer. Publisert i Bjørn Erik Rasch (red.) Islamistisk terrorisme (Oslo: Abstrakt Forlag, 2004).
 

The Madrid document:

FFI explains the al-Qaida document "Jihadi Iraq: Hopes and Risks".
Read the document here.
Read FFI's analysis here.

"Jihadi Strategic Studies: The Alleged Al Qaeda Policy Study Preceding the Madrid Bombings". By Brynjar Lia and Thomas Hegghammer. Published in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 27, 4, (Sep-Oct 2004): 355-375.
 
 
"Until the end of time". Book review of L'Apocalypse dans l'Islam by Jean-Pierre Filiu, The National, 16 February 2009. By Thomas Hegghammer
 
"Et islamistisk studentopprør?". By Truls Hallberg Tønnessen. Published in Babylon: Tidsskrift om Midtøsten og Nord-Afrika, 6, 2, (2008): 20-29.
 
"Doctrines for Jihadi Terrorist Training". By Brynjar Lia. Published in Terrorism and Political Violence, 20, 4, (Oct 2008): 518–542.
 
"Da’wa, Jihad, and Salafism in Saudi Arabia and Yemen"
On 24 November 2008, FFI’s senior research fellow Dr Thomas Hegghammer spoke at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC about the differences and similarities between al-Qaida in Yemen and al-Qaida in Saudi Arabia.
For a summary of the seminar see..
For a video of the seminar see..
 
"Jihadist reactions to the Muhammad cartoons". By Truls H. Tønnessen. Presentation at the FFI-seminar "Paths to Global Jihad: Radicalisation and Recruitment to Terror Networks" at  Oslo military Society on 15 March 2006.
 
"Muhammad-karikaturene som motiv for terroranslag: En oppdatering". Foredrag av FFI forsker Truls Hallberg Tønnessen på et seminar organisert av Konsortiet for studiet av internasjonal terrorisme og organisert kriminalitet på NUPI 11 juni 2008.
 
"Al Qaeda's Dissident Voices"
Lecture by FFI's senior research fellow Dr Brynjar Lia at CSIS Congressional Forum on Islam, December 4th, 2007 at Capitol Hill, Washington D.C. 
Read a summary of the lecture.
 
 
 
 

The Muslim Brotherhood

"A Critical Analysis of Hasan al-Banna’s Memoirs: Mudhakkirat al-Da‘wah wa al-Da‘iyah". By Brynjar Lia. Paper presented at British Society of Middle Eastern Studies Annual Conference, 12-15 July 1995, University of Durham, United Kingdom.

 
Brynjar Lia:
The Society of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt 1928-1942: The Rise of an Islamic Mass Movement
(Reading: Ithaca Press, 1998).
This book examines the rise of the mother organization of all modern Islamist movements, the Society of the  Muslim Brothers in Egypt. It explores the socio-economic and cultural factors which facilitated the movement’s expansion and analyses the keys to its success – its organization, internal structure, modes of action and recruitment techniques as well as its ideological and class appeal. Read more..