ABSTRACT
Part III engages in a micro- and macro-level analysis of the charismatic leadership phenomenon in radical and militant Islamism via case studies of Hassan al-Banna (Chapter 7), Sayyid Qutb (Chapter 8), Abdullah Azzam (Chapter 9), Osama bin Laden (Chapter 10) and Anwar al-Awlaki (Chapter 11). Given the primary micro- and macro-level purposes of Part III, three chapters examine the TCPIRM from the 1970s into the 21st century. This approach not only facilitates a more detailed analysis of the most recent evolutionary developments of the TCPIRM, but provides a broad platform within which to examine the nuances of the charismatic leadership phenomenon in modern Islamist militancy. However, it is vital to provide a socio-historical and evolutionary context to the analysis in Chapters 9, 10 and 11 by briefly examining the Colonial (Chapter 7) and post-Colonial (Chapter 8) periods. After all, the charismatic leaders of the Colonial and post-Colonial periods are the charismatic ancestors of the charismatic leaders of modern Islamist militancy and it is upon their ‘charismatic capital’ that their contemporaries, at least in part, emerged.
