Since its inception in Afghanistan in the late 1980s, the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT), also known as the Jamaat-ul-Dawa (JuD), has arguably been the most threatening and disruptive terrorist organization in South Asia and beyond. While there is considerable scholarship on its history and operations, few scholars have exploited the organization's vast publications. This volume is the first scholarly effort to curate a sample of LeT's Urdu-language publications and then translate them into English for the scholarly community studying this group and related organizations. While the original texts were written and published by Dar al Andalus, which exclusively publishes LeT's books, pamphlets, posters, speeches, and other materials with the explicit intention of diffusing the group's ideology, raising funds, and cultivating volunteers for the organization, the authors hope that by rendering the group's materials more accessible, this book can contribute to the myriad efforts to combat such groups and the violence they perpetrate.
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Weight: 936g
Dimensions: 145 x 222mm
Publication Date: 18 Sep 2023
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780198883937
About C. Christine FairSafina Ustaad
C. Christine Fair is Professor Security Studies Program Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service Georgetown University USA. She previously served as a senior political scientist with the RAND Corporation a political officer with the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan in Kabul and a senior research associate at the United States Institute of Peace. Her most recent book is In Their Own Words: Understanding Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (Hurst/OUP 2018/2019). She has authored co-authored and co-edited several books including Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army's Way of War (OUP 2014) Pakistan's Enduring Challenges (University of Pennsylvania Press 2015) Policing Insurgencies: Cops as Counterinsurgents (OUP 2014) Political Islam and Governance in Bangladesh (Routledge 2010) and Treading on Hallowed Ground: Counterinsurgency Operations in Sacred Spaces (OUP 2008) among others. Safina Ustaad is a freelance translator poet and conceptual artist based in Providence Rhode Island with a Master's in Theater Studies from Brown University. Ustaad has translated for various academics and journalists researching militancy and political violence in Pakistan.