While a number of sensational and poorly documented books have been published on terrorism with sections devoted to terrorist financing, this is the first high-level scholarly, analytically sophisticated overview of terrorist financing
Book Cover ; Title ; Copyright ; Contents ; Illustrations ; Contributors ; Preface and acknowledgements ; Abbreviations ; 1 Introduction: The challenge of terrorist financing ; Part I: The social organization of terrorism ; 2 Producing terror: Organizational dynamics of survival ; 3 The evolution of al Qaeda ; 4 The social organization of terror in Southeast Asia: The case of Jemaah Islamiyah ; Part II: The financial organization of terrorism: The raising and movement of funds ; 5 Terrorism, charities, and diasporas: Contrasting the fundraising practices of Hamas and al Qaeda among Muslims in Europe