Islamist movements for jihad
"Jihadist" redirects here. For the Islamic doctrine, see
Jihad .
Territorial presence of jihadist groups and overview of the situation in each region
Jihadism is a neologism for modern armed Islamic movements that seek to base the state on Islamic principles.[ 1] [ 2] In a narrower sense, it refers to the belief that armed confrontation is a theologically legitimate method of socio-political change towards an Islamic system of governance .[ 3] [ 4]
Jihadism has its roots in the late 19th- and early 20th-century ideological developments of Islamic revivalism , which further developed into Qutbism and related ideologies during the 20th and 21st centuries.[ 5] [ 6] [ 7] Jihadist ideologues envision jihad as a "revolutionary struggle" against the international order to unite the Muslim world under Islamic law .[ 8]
The Islamist organizations that participated in the Soviet–Afghan War of 1979 to 1989 reinforced the rise of jihadism, which has since propagated during various armed conflicts .[ 9] [ 10] Jihadism rose in prominence after the 1990s; by one estimate, 5 percent of civil wars involved jihadist groups in 1990, but this grew to more than 40 percent by 2014.[ 11] With the rise of the terror group ISIS in 2014—which a large contingent of Jihadist groups have opposed—large numbers of foreign Muslim volunteers came from abroad to join the militant cause in Syria and Iraq.[ 18]
The term "jihadism" has been applied to various Islamic extremist or Islamist individuals and organizations with militant ideologies based on the classical Islamic notion of lesser jihad .[ 21] French political scientist Gilles Kepel also identified a specific Salafist form of jihadism in the 1990s.[ 22] Jihadism with an international, pan-Islamist scope is also known as global jihadism.[ 25] The term has also been invoked to retroactively characterise the military campaigns of historic Islamic empires ,[ 26] [ 27] and later the Fula jihads in West Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries.[ 28] [ 29]
The 2021 establishment of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and the 2024 establishment of the post-Assad Syrian Arab Republic grew out of the Jihadist groups Taliban and Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham , respectively.[ 30] [ 31]
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