Islamic Jihad Union

Bc. Fuad Ismayilov

Master's thesis

Abstract:

The goal of this thesis is to analyze the Islamic Jihad Union from the point of view of terrorism research. I would like to divide my thesis into six particular chapters that in my opinion will cover the Islamic Jihad Union organization from its emergence to the present. The first chapter of my thesis is the contribution to the theoretical and methodological introduction to the nature and fundamental concepts of terrorism and I will try to write and mention the different perceptions and understandings about terrorism, its types, challenges, ideology and perspectives with the particular examples. The methods used by the terrorists will be discussed in this chapter also. I decided to devote the second chapter of this thesis to the understanding of the Islamic Jihad Union organization and to figure out what kind of the organization the Islamic Jihad Union is. The scientific and theoretical goal of the Islamic Jihad Union organization, its emergence, and its historical development with historical sequences will be discussed in this chapter. The third chapter is forwarded to the investigation with purpose of to find out the relationship of the Islamic Jihad Union organization with the Global Jihad and the link between global terrorist networks as Taliban and Al-Qaeda. The fourth part of this thesis is the contribution to the ideology and identity of the Islamic Jihad Union organization. Here I will explain how the Islamic Jihad Union organization operates. The methods used by the Islamic Jihad Union organization, its allies, and its operations in different parts of the world its suicide bombe attacks will be discussed in this chapter with the chronological consequences. The fifth chapter of this thesis was devoted to the possible roles, influences and investigations of the different special secret services concerning the Islamic Jihad Union organization. Also in this last chapter was described which international organizations and states entered the name of Islamic Jihad Union organization into their black lists. The six and last part of this thesis was devoted to the assessment of the Islamic Jihad Union organization. In this fifth chapter I also tried to put together all my analyses and to define out how the Islam Jihad Union organization is dangerous for the Western European countries, Middle East and different regions of the world.

Keywords

Terrorisme, Jihadisme, Islamic Jihad Union, al-Qaeda, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Germany

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 9. 12. 2010

Thesis defence

• Date of defence: 4. 1. 2011
• Supervisor: prof. JUDr. PhDr. Miroslav Mareš, Ph.D.
• Reader: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Kříž, Ph.D.

Masaryk University

Faculty of Social Studies

Master programme / field:
Political Science / European Politics (Eng.)