Abdulbasit Kassim - The Boko Haram Reader: From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State

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From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State

With an Introduction by

PROFESSOR DAVID COOK

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The Boko Haram Reader: From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State.

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We would like to acknowledge a wide range of scholars who have helped this project come to fruition. First and foremost, the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, with its director, Ambassador Edward Djerejian, and Professor Allen Matusow, who have been instrumental in obtaining funding and fellowships for the study of Boko Haram since 2011. We would also like to acknowledge the Department of Religion at Rice University, and most especially Professor Elias Kifon Bongmba, who has helped us in innumerable ways, patiently and with vast knowledge of Africa. Additionally, we are indebted to the Mosle Funds endowed to the Faculty of the Humanities at Rice University.

A special thanks to the Kanuri translating team headed by Atta Barkindo (Ph.D., Politics and International Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) and Hurso Adam (Ph.D. candidate, Environment, Conflict and SecurityLake Chad Border region, London South Bank University). We are indebted to this team for translating the two Kanuri texts (nos. 4 and 16).

We would like to acknowledge the gracious aid of Jacob Zenn, at the Jamestown Foundation, who helped us clarify many issues and obtain texts and videos, as well as that of Alex Thurston, at Georgetown University, who kindly supplied us with a copy of Muhammad Yusufs Hdhihi aqdatun wa-minhj dawatin (text 2). We would like to thank Aaron Zelin of jihadology.net from whom we have obtained several documents and videos. Professor Abdulla Uba Adamu, Vice-Chancellor of National Open University of Nigeria, Abuja, very kindly supplied us with the audio of text 9 and text 25 with his translation, in addition to clarifying several helpful issues linguistically and ideologically (all translator notes in text 25 are his). Professor Charles Abiodun Alao, of the African Leadership Center at Kings College, University of London, also supported the scholarship of Abdulbasit Kassim, and deserves to be acknowledged. Jana Hutchinson of Emory University traveled with David Cook on an Africa overland trip during 2009. We passed through Maiduguri on 810 May 2009. She read over the manuscript and made corrections.

We would like to thank Professor Siraj Abdulkarim at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria; Dr Usman Bugaje at the Arewa House, Kaduna; Professor Mukhtar Bunza at Usman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto; Professor Farooq Kperogi at Kennesaw State University, Georgia; and Mallam Ibraheem Suleiman at the Center for Islamic and Legal Studies, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, who have made helpful suggestions and given us feedback. Dr Carmen McCain of Westmont College also gave us several linguistic corrections. We would also like to thank Professor Murray Last, of University College, London, and Professor John Voll of Georgetown University for providing insights into West African Islam.

It is our hope that this book will provide a basis for the study of Salafi-jihadism in Nigeria. The Boko Haram insurgency has led to the slavery and slaughter of enormous numbers of Nigerians and other West Africans, both Christians and Muslims. We hope that when this insurgency is resolved, the common experience of this horror will at least result in the strengthened unity of Nigeria. May justice be rendered to the victims of Boko Haram.

Abdulbasit Kassim is a PhD student in the Department of Religion at Rice University. His research focuses on the Intellectual History of Islam in Africa, Contemporary Islamic Movements in Africa, Postcolonial African States, African Religions, and the International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa. His publications have appeared in