The Making of Boko Haram
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The Making of Boko Haram
An essential and up-to-date look at Boko Haram that examines the historical antecedents, events and personalities that shaped the movement’s ideology and pivot towards violence.
An essential and up-to-date look at Boko Haram that examines the historical antecedents, events and personalities that shaped the movement’s ideology and pivot towards violence.
An essential and timely exploration of Boko Haram, a terror group whose violence has surpassed every other modern terror group including that of Daesh, al Qaeda and Al-Shabaab.
This key volume constitutes a vital resource on Boko Haram’s ideology, history, leadership, and pivot towards violence. With particular emphasis on the events, personalities, radical histories and Islamic discourses that shaped Boko Haram’s rise, the volume examines the movement’s formative years under Muhammad Yusuf and its evolution into one of the world’s most violent terror groups.
Delving into the traditions, institutional structures and politicisation of shari‘a (Islamic law) in Northern Nigeria, this ground-breaking volume offers crucial insights into Boko Haram as a social movement that exploits political Islam towards deadly ends.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781350541078
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 22 January 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 232.0mm
Weight: 339g
Pages: 296
About the Author
omeni is the principal consultant at Terrorism Studies Consultancy and a visiting professor at Boston University. He has taught at the War Studies Department, King’s College London, at the University of Leicester, and at the University of St Andrews, UK, where he was Senior Lecturer. He is the author of Policing and Politics in Nigeria (2022), Insurgency and War in Nigeria (2019), Counter-Insurgency in Nigeria (2017) and Picking Sides: Race, Ethnicity and Recruitment in the Colonial Nigerian Army (forthcoming).
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