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Warrant for Terror: The Fatwas of Radical Islam and the Duty to Jihad (Hoover Studies in Politics, Economics, and Society)

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This is my second copy I have ordered; the first was from Amazon the year of publication (2006) after having met Mr. Bar on the rainy main street of our town. That first copy was received from Amazon with mystery: a library shelf number on the spine, a library name blacked out on the top page edges, and received late! I found the text the most concise (188 pages), definitive treatment on this subject's process. It clarified nicely what I didn't learn in a university course on Muslim Theology and eleven years of living in the mid east. Dr. Bar's unique background in Israel's foreign service and his literary knowledge of Arabic qualifies him extremely well. The process is never covered in the media yet it is not a simple one man/cleric show. A "semi-democratic", maybe auto-cractic is a better term, must/should be held to before a fatwa is "jihadable". Bar selects about a hundred such fatwas to briefly discuss and show a rescind or directive. Most certainly there is a difference in numbers between the amount Sunnis issue and those of Shiites. Every media reporter should read and have this among their select books.
Jack B. Irvine,jr