Caucasus Emirate Mujahedin

Gordon M. Hahn is an expert for Corr Analytics and a senior researcher for the Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies, Akribus Group. He lives in Mountain View, California.

“Hahn’s scholarship is exhaustive and thorough...the study is worth a look as it valuably fills a gap in the overall picture of the revolutionary jihad that has involved so much of the world.”—The NYMAS Review; “this work represents a tremendous amount of impressive, diligent and difficult research which serves as testament to Hahn’s imposing knowledge of the subject. Indeed, Hahn’s command of the subject is beyond question. Furthermore the sheer volume of tables, facts and figures Hahn provides in support of his examination will no doubt make this book an invaluable research tool. One would have to look quite hard to find cause to criticise Hahn’s work and even then, those criticisms would be so minor as to almost not warrant mention...an illuminating and absorbing read...the must read book on the North Caucasus—Period”—defensereport.com; “Hahn’s scholarship is commendably thorough...it valuably fills in a gap in the overall picture of the revolutionary jihad that has involved so much of the world”—Strategy Page; “Gordon Hahn has provided an outstanding analysis of the Islamist insurrection of the Caucasus, a conflict which reached out and took innocent lives in Boston, as well as in many Russian, Chechen and Dagestani cities and villages. His thorough scholarship sets a new benchmark in the study of religiously motivated terrorism in the former Soviet area.”—Ariel Cohen, Senior Research Fellow, The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies; “In this important book, Hahn masterfully moves beyond arid structural explanations to explore the contingent historical, ideological and leadership factors that have made the Caucasus Emirate a major, if often under-recognized, node in the current global jihadist landscape.”—Dr. Gary Ackerman, Director, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START); “In this important book, Hahn has thoroughly documented the extent to which the earlier ethno-nationalist conflict in Chechnya has been progressively “jihadized” ideologically and internationalized, a crucial transformation that has largely gone unrecognized.”—Jeffrey M. Bale, PhD, Senior Researcher, Monterey Terrorism Research and Education Program; “Gordon Hahn lays out how groups and individuals from the Northern Caucasus and elsewhere in Russia have evolved and strengthened links with like-minded non-Russia-based terrorist networks around the world, including Syria. This is a security threat that directly affects the United States and its allies, and Gordon Hahn’s book is THE source to get up to speed on the topic.”—Andrew Kuchins, Director and Senior Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C.

• Table of ContentsPreface1. Jihadization and the Caucasus Emirate: Empirical and Theoretical Problems2. The Global-Caucasus Jihadi Connection and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeriya3. The ­Global-Caucasus Connection and the Caucasus Emirate4. The Caucasus Emirate: Leadership, Organization and Theo-Ideology5. The CE Jihad’s Operational Record: The Early Years6. Sheikh Buryatskii and the Rise and Fall of the Ingush Mujahedin7. Magomed Vagabov (“Seifullah Gubdenskii”) and the Rise of the Dagestan Vilaiyat8. “Seifullah” Anzor Astemirov and the Rise of the OVKBK9. The CE Crosses the Volga: The ­Idel-Ural Vilaiyat?10. The ­Caucasus-Global Jihadi Vector: The Caucasus Emirate Goes Global11. The Caucasus Emirate in Comparative and Theoretical ContextEpilogueChapter NotesBibliographyIndex