The Mind of Jihad »

Laurent Murawiec taught philosophy, was a foreign correspondent, co-founded and managed a consulting company for geopolitical and geoeconomic affairs, and taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en sciences sociales. He has served as a consultant for the French Ministry of Defense and as a Senior International Policy Analyst with the RAND Corporation and is currently a senior Fellow of the Hudson Institute. He is the author of La Guerre au XXIè Siècle (2000), L'Esprit des Nations: Cultures et Géopolitique (2002), La Guerre d'Après (2003), and Vulnerabilities in the Chinese Way of War (2004), as well as an acclaimed French translation of Clausewitz's On War (1999).

Murawiec examines contemporary jihad using history, anthropology, and theology to understand its political and ideological origins.

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction     1
"We Love Death"     5
"An Elite of Amoral Supermen"     59
The Gnostic Mahdi     90
Manichean Tribalism     132
The Odd Pedigree of Modern Jihad     169
The Mutated Virus: "Islamic Revolution"     256
Jihad as Terror     295
Conclusion     324
Index     327