{"product_id":"the-universal-enemy-jihad-empire-and-the-challenge-of-solidarity-hardback-9780804792370","title":"The Universal Enemy; Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity (Hardback) 9780804792370","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Universal Enemy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eJihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDarryl Li (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780804792370\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 December 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e384 pages, 9 halftones, 3 maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Focused on the Bosnian jihad and the wider world, both in that era and since, \u003ci\u003eThe Universal Enemy\u003c\/i\u003e is original, authoritative, and broad in significance. This remarkable achievement is anchored in Darryl Li's unique combination of skills and sensibilities, which are at once ethnographic, lawyerly, and linguistic.\"—Brinkley Messick, Columbia University \"In this deeply original book, Darryl Li paints a vivid portrait of jihadist universalism and its mobilization both for and against imperial power. Thought-provoking and beautifully written, \u003ci\u003eThe Universal Enemy\u003c\/i\u003e raises important questions about the legalities, conduct, and effects of global violence in all its forms.\"—Lauren Benton, Vanderbilt University \"A fascinating and highly readable account of jihad from the perspective of Islamic fighters. \u003ci\u003eThe Universal Enemy\u003c\/i\u003e shows brilliantly that jihad is not a uniform terrorist movement but includes a wide variety of actors, motivations, and ideologies inspired by religion and the aspiration for universality, parallel to other ideologies such as human rights.\"—Sally Engle Merry, New York University \"Darryl Li offers superb insight into a figure that shapes so much law and policy but is little understood—the 'universal enemy,' the foreign Muslim fighter. Telling the stories of these mujahids, their motivations and aspirations, with exceptional empathy and detail, he challenges much of what we think we know. \u003ci\u003eThe Universal Enemy\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new and compelling way of understanding universalism and violence, empire and solidarity.\"—Anthony Anghie, National University of Singapore and University of Utah \"[This book] stingingly criticizes the field of 'jihadism' as an academic discipline connected to the national security state....Li lets his subjects speak for themselves and casts few judgments. The picture that emerges is a morally complex one.\"—Murtaza Hussain, \u003ci\u003eThe Intercept\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThe Universal Enemy\u003c\/i\u003e is extraordinary in combining many of the techniques of social science with a sophisticated knowledge of Islamic doctrines and controversies—except that, rather than assuming that religious texts are simply vectors for ideology, he focuses on how they are actually produced and used....[Li] seems to have read everything relevant to his topic and to anticipate many possible counter-arguments.\"—Jonathan Benthall, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThe Universal Enemy\u003c\/i\u003e is a critical and welcome addition to our debates around radicalisation, Islamism and transnational politics.\"—Usman Butt, \u003ci\u003eThe New Arab\u003c\/i\u003e \"Li is a gifted writer and storyteller, and his research has amazing breadth....[He] should be commended for a finely crafted plunge into international jihad.\"—John Waterbury, \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e \"[Li] effectively confronts the demonization of jihadists in the aftermath of 9\/11, particularly in the US....The author's linguistic skills and the depth of the interviews are impressive, and the case selection is intriguing. Recommended.\"—A. T. Kuru, \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e \"[A] provocative and deeply researched new book....\u003ci\u003eThe Universal Enemy\u003c\/i\u003e is the product of difficult and meticulous data collection. I expect that it will be cited as a standard-setting work of qualitative empirical research on political violence.\"—Mara Revkin, \u003ci\u003eLawfare\u003c\/i\u003e \"This important book offers many insights for scholars and students of political thought, anthropology, and law. Li's breadth and acumen in navigating these different fields of study is impressive....[\u003ci\u003eThe Universal Enemy\u003c\/i\u003e] offers a vital contribution to the literature on jihad and universalism, and will undoubtedly furnish its readers with critical tools to approach both with fresh perspectives.\"—Pınar Kemerli, \u003ci\u003ePolitical Theory\u003c\/i\u003e \"As an original study of transregional mobility and political belonging, Li's anthropological take on international law and history of empire upsets common assumptions about the politics of identity and solidarity in the context of contemporary warfare....[A] work of breathtaking reach and intrigue, \u003ci\u003eThe Universal Enemy\u003c\/i\u003e explores how political identities form and collide through claims of belonging to a project larger than oneself.\"—Anna Simone Reumert, \u003ci\u003eMERIP\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThe Universal Enemy\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely intervention into political as well as scholarly debates....The story of the Bosnian Jihad continues to influence a wide range of seemingly incommensurable projects and seems to pre-figure aspects of current debates about the nature of rights and the limits of legitimate coercion. Li's ambition in trying to theorize these complexly interwoven threads together should be commended.\"—Geoff Hughes, \u003ci\u003ePolitical Theology\u003c\/i\u003e \"[At] once a methodology, an ethics, and a praxis....[\u003ci\u003eThe Universal Enemy\u003c\/i\u003e] presents a challenge not only to the scholarly and policy expertise produced about 'terrorism' and 'jihad,' but also to the very practice of academic and political 'theorizing' about them in the first place..\"—C. Heike Schotten, \u003ci\u003eContemporary Political Theory\u003c\/i\u003e \"This is an important and singular book, one that can be recommended to anyone interested in jihad, Bosnia, the GWOT, race and difference in Europe, or universalism... \u003ci\u003eThe Universal Enemy\u003c\/i\u003e succeeds in illuminating these lived projects and enmeshments and making clear why, and how, they matter for us all.\"—Nadia El-Shaarawi, \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Middle East Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo contemporary figure is more demonized than the Islamist foreign fighter who wages jihad around the world. Spreading violence, disregarding national borders, and rejecting secular norms, so-called jihadists seem opposed to universalism itself. In a radical departure from conventional wisdom on the topic, \u003ci\u003eThe Universal Enemy\u003c\/i\u003e argues that transnational jihadists are engaged in their own form of universalism: these fighters struggle to realize an Islamist vision directed at all of humanity, transcending racial and cultural difference.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnthropologist and attorney Darryl Li reconceptualizes jihad as armed transnational solidarity under conditions of American empire, revisiting a pivotal moment after the Cold War when ethnic cleansing in the Balkans dominated global headlines. Muslim volunteers came from distant lands to fight in Bosnia-Herzegovina alongside their co-religionists, offering themselves as an alternative to the US-led international community. Li highlights the parallels and overlaps between transnational jihads and other universalisms such as the War on Terror, United Nations peacekeeping, and socialist Non-Alignment. Developed from more than a decade of research with former fighters in a half-dozen countries, \u003ci\u003eThe Universal Enemy\u003c\/i\u003e explores the relationship between jihad and American empire to shed critical light on both.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e  1. Migrations\u003cbr\u003e  2. Locations\u003cbr\u003e  3. Authorities\u003cbr\u003e  4. Groundings\u003cbr\u003e  Interlude: Exchanging Arabs\u003cbr\u003e  5. Non-Alignment\u003cbr\u003e  6. Peacekeeping\u003cbr\u003e  7. 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