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Greenwood Biographies
Osama bin Laden: A Biography
This concise biography of the world's most notorious terrorist tells the fascinating story of the evolution of a wealthy businesman's son to the 9/11 mastermind who declared war on America.
Osama bin A Biography offers a concise, fact-based portrait of a man whose rise from obscurity to notoriety coincides with some of the most traumatic events of the 21st century. It follows bin Laden's story from his life in Saudi society in the 1960s and 1970s to his religious conversion, his emergence as a jihadist leader, his horrifying terrorist attacks, and his near-mythic status in parts of the Muslim world today.
Drawing on a wide range of sources, Osama bin Laden finds the political and religious roots of a worldview that combines devout faith with a belief in violence and terrorism. The book pays particular attention to the spread of radical Islam from Egypt to Saudi Arabia and beyond, as well as the development of Al Qaeda and its current scope and capabilities.
Osama bin A Biography offers a concise, fact-based portrait of a man whose rise from obscurity to notoriety coincides with some of the most traumatic events of the 21st century. It follows bin Laden's story from his life in Saudi society in the 1960s and 1970s to his religious conversion, his emergence as a jihadist leader, his horrifying terrorist attacks, and his near-mythic status in parts of the Muslim world today.
Drawing on a wide range of sources, Osama bin Laden finds the political and religious roots of a worldview that combines devout faith with a belief in violence and terrorism. The book pays particular attention to the spread of radical Islam from Egypt to Saudi Arabia and beyond, as well as the development of Al Qaeda and its current scope and capabilities.
188 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2010
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January 8, 2018
No perceptive insights/reveals. And that's damning in a book of this sort.
On the plus side, my relative displeasure/irritation on reading such a mediocre work is offset by the fact that my reading has picked up considerable pace of late and I've embraced new challenges.
On the plus side, my relative displeasure/irritation on reading such a mediocre work is offset by the fact that my reading has picked up considerable pace of late and I've embraced new challenges.
October 22, 2024
a son of an aristocratic man lead his father name in shame a mass murder killed 3000 innocent people merely on his ideological and stagnant beliefs, no doom humans are the worst
May 16, 2022
I liked this book but I think there's too much information about all the wars that were going on before the 9/11 together that sometimes makes me feel lost and I don't know where I am. However, this book explains very well the "reasons" about all the attacks that Bin laden's group made.
May 20, 2013
This book was amazing and at the same time very scary. To know that one man had as much power as he did is hard to fully understand. He had all this power for so long. Americans think he just had power since the first twin tower bombing but he had this kind of control since the 1970s and 1980s. This book does a great job of telling you how he gained his power over a long period of time and how he got so many to follow him. I enjoyed this book.
August 22, 2014
Do individuals make history or do circumstances call forth individuals?In this case of osama the second is more accurate.
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