9/11 Handbook Annotated Translation and Interpretation of the Attackers' Spiritual Manual - Kippenberg, Hans G. (Equinox Pub., 2006)
The book contains the first scholarly edition of the Arabic text of the Manual of the Attackers of 9/11, along with an English translation and commentary, and studies concerning its context. It makes a document available that is crucial in understanding 9/11. It addresses the issues debated in public: Is the text a forgery? Are suicidal attacks typical for Islam? Does Islam allow such violence? How did the perpetrators perceive Islam today? Is the?War on terror? an adequate response?
Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-104) and indexes
Background to the Spiritual Manual : its discovery, interrogation and disregard / Hans G. Kippenberg -- Translation of the Spiritual Manual / Tilman Seidensticker, Albrecht Fuess, Moez Khalfaoui and Hans G. Kippenberg -- The instructions given in the Spiritual Manual and their particular interpretation of Islam / Tilman Seidensticker -- The religious and historical background of suicide attacks in the name of Islam / Tilman Seidensticker -- Jihad and changing times : the political theology of Usama bin Ladin and his declarations of war / Thomas Scheffler -- Defining the present situation of Muslims and re-enacting the prophet's ghazwas / Hans G. Kippenberg -- The social matrix of the attack / Hans G. Kippenberg -- Jihad hymns as a means of self-motivation in the Hamburg group/ Tilman Seidensticker -- The Arabic text of the Spiritual Manual/ Tilman Seidensticker, Albrecht Fuess and Moez Khalfaoui