Hans G. Kippenberg is Professor in History & Theory of Religions at the Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt. Tilman Seidensticker is Professor in Arabic & Islamic Studies at the University of Jena.

'The project is timely in a way that few academic projects are. The US War on Terror shows no sign of abating, and amid all the clamor for exit strategies from Afghanistan and Iraq, few have paid heed to the lessons that might be gleaned from 9/11, and particularly from the message of the actual hijackers.The existing English versions of the manual ar fragmentary and more schematic and suggestive than in depth or conclusive. The combination of two first class scholars - an historian of religion and an Arabist - who divide the task of presenting, then analyzing this critical text is as rare as it is welcome'. Bruce B. Lawrence, Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion, Duke University, and author of Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden

• Preface The FBI Press Conference Web Page Chapter 1 Background to the Spiritual Manual: its discovery, interrogation and disregard Hans G. Kippenberg Chapter 2 Translation of the Spiritual Manual Tilman Seidensticker, Albrecht Fuess, Moez Khalfaoui and Hans G. Kippenberg Chapter 3 The instructions given in the Spiritual Manual and their particular interpretation of Islam Tilman Seidensticker Chapter 4 The religious and historical background of suicide attacks in the name of Islam Tilman Seidensticker Chapter 5 JihAd and Changing Times: The Political Theology of UsAma bin LAdin and His Declarations of War Thomas Scheffler Chapter 6 Defining the Present Situation of Muslims and Re-enacting the Prophet's ghazwas Hans G. Kippenberg Chapter 7 The Social Matrix of the Attack Hans G. Kippenberg Chapter 8 Jihad hymns (nashETHds) as a means of self-motivation in the Hamburg group Tilman Seidensticker Chapter 9 The Arabic text of the Spiritual Manual Tilman Seidensticker, Albrecht Fuess and Moez Khalfaoui

Hans G. Kippenberg is Professor in History & Theory of Religions at the Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt. Tilman Seidensticker is Professor in Arabic & Islamic Studies at the University of Jena.

'The project is timely in a way that few academic projects are. The US War on Terror shows no sign of abating, and amid all the clamor for exit strategies from Afghanistan and Iraq, few have paid heed to the lessons that might be gleaned from 9/11, and particularly from the message of the actual hijackers.The existing English versions of the manual ar fragmentary and more schematic and suggestive than in depth or conclusive. The combination of two first class scholars - an historian of religion and an Arabist - who divide the task of presenting, then analyzing this critical text is as rare as it is welcome'. Bruce B. Lawrence, Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion, Duke University, and author of Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden

• Preface The FBI Press Conference Web Page Chapter 1 Background to the Spiritual Manual: its discovery, interrogation and disregard Hans G. Kippenberg Chapter 2 Translation of the Spiritual Manual Tilman Seidensticker, Albrecht Fuess, Moez Khalfaoui and Hans G. Kippenberg Chapter 3 The instructions given in the Spiritual Manual and their particular interpretation of Islam Tilman Seidensticker Chapter 4 The religious and historical background of suicide attacks in the name of Islam Tilman Seidensticker Chapter 5 JihAd and Changing Times: The Political Theology of UsAma bin LAdin and His Declarations of War Thomas Scheffler Chapter 6 Defining the Present Situation of Muslims and Re-enacting the Prophet's ghazwas Hans G. Kippenberg Chapter 7 The Social Matrix of the Attack Hans G. Kippenberg Chapter 8 Jihad hymns (nashETHds) as a means of self-motivation in the Hamburg group Tilman Seidensticker Chapter 9 The Arabic text of the Spiritual Manual Tilman Seidensticker, Albrecht Fuess and Moez Khalfaoui