Current Trends in Islamist Ideology

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Current Trends in Islamist Ideology

Militants of The Movement for the Salvation of Azawad stand on a dune in the deserted area of the Meneka region in Mali during an anti jihadist patrol on February 4, 2018. (Souleymane Ag Anara/AFP via Getty Images)
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Militants of The Movement for the Salvation of Azawad stand on a dune in the deserted area of the Meneka region in Mali during an anti jihadist patrol on February 4, 2018. (Souleymane Ag Anara/AFP via Getty Images)
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Mathias Khalfaoui
Independent Consultant
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Sahel Security Analysis (SSA)
Mathias Khalfaoui & Sahel Security Analysis (SSA)
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Huthi soldiers march during an official military parade marking the ninth anniversary of the Huthi takeover of the capital Sanaa, on September 21, 2023. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP via Getty Images)
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Nadwa al-Dawsari
Nadwa al-Dawsari
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A fully veiled woman walks with her daughter as civilians fleeing the Islamic State's group embattled holdout of Baghouz gather in a field on February 13, 2019, in Deir Ezzor, Syria. (Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images)
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Suraj Ganesan
Independent Researcher, Terrorism and Insurgency in South Asia
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Meili Criezis
Graduate Research Assistant at the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab, PhD student at American University
Suraj Ganesan & Meili Criezis
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Destroyed vehicles and damaged buildings in the village of Baghouz in Syria's eastern Deir Ezzor province near the Iraqi border a day after the Islamic State group's "caliphate" was declared defeated by the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces on March 24, 2029. (Giuseppe Cacace/AFP via Getty Images)
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Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
Arabic translator, Editor at Castlereagh Associates
Charlie Winter
Director of Research, Extrac
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi & Charlie Winter
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A mural of Mahsa Amini showing support for the people of Iran is presented by artist Scott Marsh, on November 4, 2022, in Sydney, Australia. (Saverio Marfia via Getty Images)
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Saeid Golkar
UC Foundation Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Saeid Golkar
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Islamic militants belonging to banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group are escorted by the Pakistani police before leaving the court on June 16, 2003, in Karachi, Pakistan. (Syed Zargham via Getty Images)
Abdul Sayed
Independent Researcher
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Amira Jadoon
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science at Clemson University, South Carolina.
Abdul Sayed & Amira Jadoon
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Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov attends a ceremony to confer the 'City of Military Glory' title to five Russian towns, at the Kremlin on June 22, 2015 in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)
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Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov attends a ceremony to confer the "City of Military Glory" title to five Russian towns at the Kremlin on June 22, 2015, in Moscow, Russia. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)
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Muhammad Haniff Hassan
Fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
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Nodirbek Soliev
PhD Student, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore
Muhammad Haniff Hassan & Nodirbek Soliev
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