Tribes and global jihadism / Virginie Collombier, Olivier Roy (editors).

"This edited volume is based on contributions by the authors to a seminar on 'Tribes and Jihad' organized at the European University Institute, Florence (Italy) on 8-9 June 2015, with the support of the Norwegian Centre for Conflict Resolution (NOREF)"--Page ix.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and index.

Introduction / Olivier Roy -- Iraqi tribes in the land of jihad / Hosham Dawod -- Kto kovo? : tribes and jihad in Pushtun lands / Mike Martin -- Tribes and political Islam in the borderland between Egypt and Libya : a (trans- )local perspective / Thomas Ḧusken -- Sufi jihad and Salafi jihadism in Egypt's Sinai : tribal generational conflict / Ismail Alexandrani -- The global and the local : Al-Qaeda and Yemen's tribes / Marieke Brandt -- Between the 'Kanuri' and others : giving a face to a jihad with neither borders nor tribes in the Lake Chad Basin / Claude Mbowou -- Sirte's tribes under the Islamic State : from civil war to global jihadism / Virginie Collombier -- Conclusion / Virginie Collombier.

"Across the Muslim world, from Iraq and Yemen, to Egypt and the Sahel, new alliances have been forged between the latest wave of violent Islamist groups--including Islamic State and Boko Haram--and local tribes. But can one now speak of a direct link between tribalism and jihadism, and how analytically useful might it be? Tribes are traditionally thought to resist all encroachments upon their sovereignty, whether by the state or other local actors, from below; yet by joining global organisations such as Islamic State, are they not rejecting the idea of the state from above? This triangular relationship is key to understanding instances of mass 'radicalisation', when entire communities forge alliances with jihadi groups, for reasons of self-interest, self-preservation or religious fervour. if Algeria's FIS or Turkey's AKP once represented the 'Islamisation of nationalism', have we now entered a new era, the 'tribalisation of globalisation'?"-- Provided by publisher.