Recommended Reading

Al-Ghoul does not endorse every view expressed in these works, they are presented as sources of information and to be thought provoking. The study of terrorism necessarily touches on questions of religion; Al-Ghoul in no way wishes to denigrate anyone's beliefs. The reader is urged to use reason, draw his own conclusions, then read on.

Terrorism

Aho, James E.; This Thing of Darkness: A Sociology of the Enemy, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1994

Aho, James E.; The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1990

Becker, Julian; The PLO: The Rise and Fall of the Palestine Liberation Organization, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1984

Bergen, Peter L.; Holy War Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin Laden, Free Press, New York, 2001

Bodansky, Yossef; Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America, Prima Publishing, New York, 2001

Carr, Caleb; The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare Against Civilians: Why It Has Always Failed, and Why it Will Fail Again, Random House, New York, 2002

Dershowitz, Alan; Why Terrorism Works: Understanding the Threat, Responding to the Challenge, Yale University Press, 2002

Emerson, Steven; American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us, The Free Press, New York, 2002

Esposito, John L.; Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam, Oxford University Press, New York, 2002

Gold, Dore; Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism, Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC, 2003

Laffin, John; Fedayeen: The Arab Israeli Dilemma, The Free Press, New York, 1973

Nance, Malcolm W.; The Terrorist Recognition Handbook: A Manual for Predicting and Identifying Terrorist Activities, The Lyons Press, Guilford, CT, 2003

Netanyahu, Benjamin; Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorists

Pipes, Daniel; Militant Islam Reaches America, Norton, New York, 2002

Pryce-Jones, David; The Face of Defeat: Palestinian Refugess and Guerillas,Holt, Rinehart, Winston, New York, 1972

Reeve, Simon; The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama Bin Laden and the Future of Terrorism, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1999

Stern, Kenneth S.; A Force Upon the Plain: The American Militia Movement and the Politics of Hate, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1996

Stern, Jessica; Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill, Harper Collins, New York, 2003 - Religious terrorists; Muslim, Christian, Jewish

Sutherland, Charles W.; Disciples of Destruction: The Religious Origins of War and Terrorism, Prometheus Books, Buffalo,NY, 1987

Victor, Barbara; Army of Roses: Inside the World of Palestinian Women Suicide Bombers, Rodale Press, 2003


War and Conflict

Hedges, Chris; War is a Force Which Gives Us Meaning, Public Affairs, New York, 2001

Kaplan, Robert D.; Soldiers of God: With the Mujahadin in Afghanistan, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1990

Robins, Robert S. and Jerrold M.Post; Political Paranoia: The Psychopolitics of Hatred, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1998


Arab/Israeli Conflict

Segev, Tom; One Palestine Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate

Collins, Larry and Dominique LaPierre; O Jerusalem

Friedman, Thomas L.; From Beirut to Jerusalem, Farrar Strauss Giroux, New York, 1989


Anti-Semitism

Carroll, James; Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2001

Perry, Marvin and Frederick M. Schweitzer, Antisemitism: Myth and Hate From Antiquity to the Present, Palgrace Macmillan, New York, 2002


Religion

Armstrong, Karen; A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1994

Bach, Marcus; Had You Been Born In Another Faith, Prentice Hall, 1961

Nelson-Pallmeyer, Jack; Is Religion Killing Us?: Violence in the Bible and the Quran, Trinity Press International, Harrisburg, PA, 2003

Wise, Michael O.; The First Messiah: Investigating the Savior Before Christ, HarperSanFrancisco, San Francisco, 1999

Vermes, Geza; Jesus the Jew

Vermes, G.; The Religion of Jesus the Jew


Judaism/Israel

Boteach, Shmuley; Judaism for Everyone: Renewing Your Life Through the Vibrant Lessons of the Jewish Faith, Basic Books, New York, 2002

Donin, Haym; To Be A Jew: A Guide to Jewish Observance in Contemporary Life, Basic Books, New York, 1972

Heschel, Abraham Joshua; Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 1951

Heschel, AJ; Who Is Man, Stanford University Press, 1965

Heschel. AJ; The Sabbath, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 1951

Kushner, Harold; To Life: A Celebration of Jewish Being and Thinking, Warner Books, New York, 1993

Strassfield, Michael; A Book of Life: Embracing Judaism as a Spiritual Practice, Schocken, New York, 2002


Islam/Arabs

Armstrong, Karen; Islam: A Shory History, The Modern Library, New York, 2000

Baker, William Raymond; Islam Without Fear: Egypt and the New Islamists, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003

Bakhash, Shaul; The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution, Basic Books, New York, 1984

Eck, Diana; A New Religious America, HarperSanFrancisco, 2001

Esposito, John L., ed., The Oxford History of Islam, Oxford University Press, New York, 1999

Griffin, Michael;Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan, Pluto Press, Sterling, VA, 2001

Kelsay, John; Islam and War, Westminster/John Knox Press, Louisville, 1993

Kepel, Gilles; Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam, Belknap - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2002

Lewis, Bernard; The Crisis of Islam

Lewis, Bernard; The Middle East: A Brief History of Last 2,000 Years, Scribner, New York, 1995

Miller, Judith; God Has Ninety-Nine Names, Simon and; Schuster, New York, 1996

Rashid, Ahmed; Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, Yale Nota Bene, New Haven, 2001

Schwartz, Stephen;The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa'ud From Tradition to Terror, Doubleday, New York

Smith, Jane L., Islam in America, Columbia University Press, 1999

Wright, Robin; Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam, Linden Press, New York, 1985



General

Armstrong, Karen; Holy War: How the Planet is Falling Apart and Coming Together and What This Means For Democracy, Timer Books, New York, 1995

Barber, Benjamin; Jihad vs. McWorld: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World, Anchor Books, 2001

Carter, James E.; The Blood of Abraham: Insights Into the Middle East, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1985

Kinzer, Stephen; All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, 2003 - The coup against Mohammad Mossadegh

Landes, David S.; The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Are Some So Rich and Others So Poor?, Norton, Hoboken, New York, 1998

Talbott, Strobe and Mayan Chanda, eds.; The Age of Terror: America and the World After September 11, Basic Books, New York, 2001


Fiction

Uris, Leon; The Haj, Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1984

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