1. America Confronts Radical Islam 1967-1989
Tinder: Islam & Arab Nationalism
Spark: The Shia Revolts in Lebanon & Iran
Backfire: Sunni Jihad in Cairo, Kabul, & Beyond

2. When Social Science Met Islam

3. Egypt’s Dilemma: Arab Nationalism or Radical Islam?
Gamal Abdel Nasser
With the Muslim Brothers 1954
Sayyid Qutb in Jail
With Cuba’s Che Guevara in 1964

4. Finding the Right Kind of Muslim
King Saud with Ike & Nixon
Crown Prince Faisal with JFK
The Shah with LBJ

5. Turning Point: The Six Day War
Israelis at Al Aqsa Mosque
Palestinians Flee to Jordan

6. Shia Islam: Religion of the Dispossessed

7. The Vanished Imam & the Shia Jihad
Slumdog Fundamentalist
The Theology of Liberation
The Return of the Twelfth Imam
Imam Musa al-Sadr

8. Radical Islam in Lebanon
Hezbollah’s Flag
Imad Mugniyah
Sheik Mohammed Fadlallah

9. Iran: Reform & Religion
Mohammed Mossadeq
Ali Shariati
Ali Amini
Ruhollah Khomeini

10. Islam in Iran after Khomeini
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Mohammed Khatemi

11. Sunni Islam: Tricontinental Reach

12. Egypt: Qutb’s Ghost & the Sunni Jihad
Islamists in Jail Sept. 1981
Sadat’s Assassins Oct. 1981
The Good Arab: Anwar Sadat

13. Sunni Jihad in Afghanistan
Mohammed Dauod Khan
Leonid Brezhnev & Nur Mohammed Taraki
Mullah Omar
Meet the Mujahadeen
Hafizullah Amin

14. Radical Sunnism in the Horn of Africa
Somalia: A Model Failed State
Mohammed Farah Aideed

15. Radical Sunnism in Algeria
Madani Mezrag
Islamic Salvation Front

16. The Mahdi’s Ghost: Radical Sunnism in Sudan
Jafaar Nimieri
Where Green Meets Black
Hassan al-Turabi & Osama Bin Laden

17. The Rise of Al Qaeda Blowback from Afghanistan
Blowback from the First Gulf War
The 1990s: Terror, Fatwa, & Jihad
Ayman al-Zawahiri & Osama bin Laden

18. Bin Laden’s Protégés Yemen: Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Iraq: Abu Musab Zarqawi
Syria: The Al Nusra Front
Mali: Al Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb