The far enemy : why Jihad went global /
Fawaz A Gerges
- New York: Cambridge Univ Press, 2005
- xii, 345 p.
A study of the jihadis and the jihadist movement which shows that Al Qaeda is a small widely criticised offshoot. Most jihadis are focussed on changing the Muslim world rather than taking the struggle global - dealing with the near rather than the far enemy.