Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Ṭālibān, Afghan Self-Determination, and the Challenges of Transnational Jihadism
At the core of this article stands an investigation into a legal response by a Pakistani official of the Ṭālibān to the claim of the caliphate by IS leader Abū Bakr al-Baghdādī. This treatise, initially published simultaneously in Arabic and Pashto, is understood here as an important position paper...
| Published in: | Die Welt des Islams |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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Die Welt des Islams
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Islamism
Jihadism
Salafism
Ṭālibān
al-Qāʿida
Islamic State
Caliphate
Mullā ʿUmar
Abū Bakr al-Baghdādī
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| Summary: | At the core of this article stands an investigation into a legal response by a Pakistani official of the Ṭālibān to the claim of the caliphate by IS leader Abū Bakr al-Baghdādī. This treatise, initially published simultaneously in Arabic and Pashto, is understood here as an important position paper of the Ṭālibān as a whole, reacting to the changing landscape of global Islamic militancy. As such, it was triggered by a number of only loosely connected events: firstly, there is the defection of a faction of the Pakistani Ṭālibān to the IS, resulting in the establishments of its governorate “Khurasan”. This coincided, secondly, with the release of documents by the leadership of al-Qāʿida in which it declared its unconditional allegiance to then-Ṭālibān leader Mullā Muḥammad ʿUmar. The third event was the official declaration of Mullā ʿUmar’s death in July 2015 and the subsequent election of a new leader of the Ṭālibān to whom the al-Qāʿida leadership has now transferred its allegiance. In this article it is shown that the Ṭālibān, as a movement with only regional aspirations, find themselves trapped in a dispute over global leadership within Muslim militant circles, crystallizing between al-Qāʿida and the IS.
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| ISSN: | 1570-0607 |
| Contains: | In: Die Welt des Islams
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700607-00562p01 |