Ahmed S Hashim: 4 books
When Counterinsurgency Wins
Sri Lanka's Defeat of the Tamil Tigers
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
For twenty-six years, civil war tore Sri Lanka apart. Despite numerous peace talks, cease-fires, and external military and diplomatic pressure, war raged on between the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Sinhala-dominated Sri Lankan government. Then, in 2009, the Sri Lankan military...
by Ahmed S. Hashim
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
From 2003 to 2008, the Sunni Arab insurgency in Iraq posed a key challenge to political stability in the country and to Coalition objectives there. This paper explains the onset, composition and evolution of this insurgency. It begins by addressing both its immediate and deeper sociopolitical origins,...
The Caliphate at War
Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
The military victories of the Islamic State have completely overturned the geopolitical map of the Middle East. Media attention has focused almost exclusively on Islamic State's savage treatment of its enemies and its ability to attract foreign fighters. In 2011, the first effort to build an Islamic...
The Objectives of Islamic Law
The Promises and Challenges of the Maqasid al-Shari'a
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Scholars, thinkers, and activists around the world are paying increasing attention to a legal reform method that promises to revolutionize the way people think about Islamic law. Known as “The Objectives of the Sharī‘a” (maqāṣid al-sharī‘a), the theory offers a way to derive and apply...