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Recommended Reading

Radical Islam and the Jihadi Movement

Abrahamian, Ervand. Radical Islam: The Iranian Mojahedin. London: I.B. Tauris, 1989.

Gerges, Fawaz. Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Extremism. New York: Harcourt, 2006.

Edwards, David B. Before Taliban: Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Kepel, Gilles. Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam. Cambridge, Mass:: The Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 2003.

Mitchell, Robert P. The Society of the Muslim Brothers. New York: Oxford University Press. 1993.

Nasr, Seyyed Vali Reza. The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution: The Jama'at-I Islami of Pakistan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Sivan, Immanuel. Radical Islam: Medieval Theology and Modern Politics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.

 

Visual Imagery: Theory, Propaganda, & Ideology

Barthes, Roland. “Rhetoric of the Image,” in Image, Music, Text. Translated by Stephen Heath. New York: Hill & Wang, 1978. Pp. 32-51.

Bryson, Norman, Michael Ann Holly, and Keith Moxey, eds. Visual Culture: Images and Interpretations. Hanover and London: Wesleyan University Press, 1994.

Bonnell, Victoria. Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters under Lenin and Stalin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Dabashi, Hamid. Theology of Discontent: The Ideological Foundation of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, 1993.

Eagleton, Terry. The Ideology of Aesthetics. London, 1990.

Falasca-Zamponi, Simonetta. Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Fischer, Michael M. J. and Mehdi Abdi. Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1990.

Parsons, Talcott. “Propaganda and Social Control,” in Essays in Sociological Theory: Pure and Applied. Glencoe: 1949, Pp. 275-309.


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