Life is more beautiful than paradise : a jihadist's own story /

In 1986, when this autobiography opens, the author is a typical fourteen-year-old boy in Asyut in Upper Egypt. Attracted at first by the image of a radical Islamist group as 'strong Muslims', his involvement develops until he finds himself deeply committed to its beliefs and implicated in...

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Main Author: Birrī, Khālid
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; 1- Paradise; 2- God is mine alone; 3- The message revealed; 4- Temptation; 5- Life; Glossary.