What do social scientists already know about Islamist networks?
A brief list of key references should be included. 1. These networks are transnational: see Quintan Wiktorowicz, The New Global Threat: Transnational Salafis and Jihad, Middle East Policy 8(4):18-38, Dec. 2001; Vernon Loeb, A Global, Pan-Islamic Network: Terrorism Entrepreneur Unifies Groups Financially, Politically, The Washington Post, August 23, 1998, p. A1, http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/260l.htm. 2. These networks are modern: see Charles Kurzman, Bin Laden and Other Thoroughly Modern Muslims, Contexts 1(4):13-20, Fall-Winter 2001, http://www.contextsmagazine.org. 3. These networks are both a product of, and a reaction against, neo-liberal globalization: note the name of al-Qaidas New York target. For further arguments on this theme, see Paul Lubeck, The Islamic Revival: Antinomies of Islamic Movements Under Globalization, pp. 146-164 in Robin Cohen and Shirin M. Rai, eds., Global Social Movements (Athlone Press, 2000). 4. These networks mobilize around a combinatio
