Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement, Alexander Thurston's 2018 scholarly history from Princeton University Press, Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics, is the first full academic history of Boko Haram, drawing on Arabic and Hausa sources, propaganda material and interviews, from its early 2000s origins under Mohammed Yusuf through the Chibok kidnapping and the 2015 split into Islamic State West Africa Province. Its strength is that it draws on primary language sources few other studies of the movement use. Its limit is that specific Kano or Zamfara sharia criminal cases sit at the edge of, not the centre of, this book's own study; a claim about one such case needs its own dedicated source.
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Reliability tier 1: a scholarly history from Princeton University Press, Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics, written by a named academic drawing on primary language sources, the standard peer reviewed academic form for this claim. NotesFirst full academic history of Boko Haram, drawing on Arabic and Hausa sources, propaganda material and interviews, from its early-2000s origins under Mohammed Yusuf through the Chibok kidnapping and the 2015 split into Islamic State West Africa Province; situates the movement within Nigeria's wider religious and political environment including sharia implementation debates in northern states. Use for the Boko Haram/ISWAP claim; the specific Kano/Zamfara sharia criminal cases sit at the edge of, not the centre of, this book's own study.
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AuthorAlexander Thurston
PublisherPrinceton University Press (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics)
Publication Year2018
URLhttps://www.amazon.com/Boko-Haram-Jihadist-Movement-Princeton/dp/0691172242
Source Typeacademic monograph
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