- Al Qaeda in Its Own Words
- Edited by Gilles Kepel
- Edited by Jean-Pierre Milelli
- Introduction and notes by Omar Saghi
- Introduction and notes by Thomas Hegghammer
- Introduction and notes by Stephane Lacroix
- Translated by Pascale Ghazaleh
- To reveal Al Qaeda’s inner workings, Gilles Kepel and his collaborators, all scholars of Arabic and Islam, have collected and brilliantly annotated key texts of the major figures from whom the movement has drawn its beliefs and direction. The resulting volume offers an unprecedented glimpse into the assumptions of the salafist jihadists who have reshaped political life at the beginning of the third millennium.
- Hardcover 2008