“Shari’ah-Compliant Jihad”: A More Complex Post-ISIS World

• Main Authors: Jasminder Singh, Muhammad Haziq Bin Jani
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Country and Region Studies; Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81551; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43493
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In a post-ISIS world, some terrorist organisations have had to balance violence against rejection from the communities they operate in. Their paradoxical solution to increase recruitment is a terrorist re-interpretation of a more “Islamic” form of “jihad”.