PhD thesis's title: "Sunni Jihad – the doctrine defending world of Islam against Westernization and Western penetration"

PhD thesis "Sunni Jihad – the doctrine defending world of Islam against Westernization and Western penetration" is divided into two main parts: first is devoted to the detailed analysis of Islamic law concerning jihad (i.e. Quranic verses, selected ahadith of Abu Muslim and Al-Bukhari, then regulations by Shaybani, Taymiyya concept of takfir), and the second one deals with jihad realization by Islamist movements selected on the grounds of their main purposes: Muslim Brotherhood, Ikhwan Muslimeen, (with its main purpose to islamicize the humanity), Hamas (with its objective to gain independence and islamicize Palestinians), Harakat Muqawima Islamiyya, and Salafiyya movement (Al-Qaeda network specifically, understood rather as a mode of thought, not as an organization, with its main purpose to establish caliphate and to destroy the West). The three organizations use the concept of Jihad in a different way, basing their interpretations of particular fatwas issued by those muftis who subscribe to the respected point of views and goals. Thus, we deal with three types of Jihad: firstly, a religious strive in order to purify the society from Western influences , secondly, an attempt to recover a state and then to purify it and lastly with transnational jihad. The reasons of such a division shall be analyzed at the beginning of the second part of the thesis (i.e. Islamic resurgence in the face of colonialism, a subsequent anomie resulting from gained independence, then neo-colonialism)

Also, the theory of social movements (Charles Tilly and Neil Smelser) will be employed in order to illustrate the similarity of the mass recruitment and contestation (like considered by the mainstream Muslims as unIslamic suicide acts or terrorism in general).