title: Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of Al-Qaeda Strategist Abu Mus'ab Al-Suri
author:  Brynjar Lia 
description: <br />"Al-Suri ha'Al-Suri has been read at West Point, profiled by Lawrence Wright in <em>The New Yorker</em>, heralded by <em>Newsweek</em> as the 'Francis Fukuyama of al Qaida' and by CNN as 'the most dangerous terrorist you've never heard of'....One of the striking things we learn from Lia's book is how often Al Qaida's adversaries threw it a lifeline.' --<em>London Review of Books</em>
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  Civitas Gentium - 6:2 (2018) 49-80
  © 2018 Faculty of Turkish Studies and Modern Asian Studies
  National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  IDEOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES OF JABHAT AL-NUSRA 
  IN AL RISĀLAH MAGAZINE
  Ioannis E. Kotoulas
  Senior Research Fellow
  Faculty of Turkish and Modern Asian Studies,
  University of Athens
  Abstract: This paper shall examine the basic ideological tenets of the Salaﬁ st 
  jihadist organization Jabhat al-Nusra, a militant oppositional group active in 
  Syria during the Syrian Civil War and also in Lebanon, as expressed in Al-Ri-
  salah magazine, its ofﬁ cial publication. Jabhat al-Nusra attempts to differentiate 
  itself from the extremism of the Islamic State and to present itself as the rightful 
  descendant of the jihadist tradition of al-Qaeda.
  Keywords: Jabhat al-Nusra, Jabhat Fateh ash-Sham, Syrian Civil War, al-Qaeda, 
  Salaﬁ  jihadism, Al Risalah Magazine
  1. Historical Outline and Ideology of Jabhat al-Nusra
  Jabhat Fateh ash-Sham (‘Front for the Conquest of th