by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Feb 15, 2012 | Monitor
While I work on another Knights2 post, I’ve decided to toss out an idea that will probably remain underdeveloped unless someone else wants to pick up the loose threads I’m about to drop. Not long ago, I decided to read all the poetry in Knights2 in succession, but...
by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Jan 21, 2012 | Monitor
I'll be referring back to this passage in my next post on the 2d edition of Zawahiri's 2d spiritual autobiography, Knights Under the Banner of the Prophet: Ultimately, for Al-Muqrin, the strategic goal of any just war has to be an eschatological and ethereal...
by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Jan 7, 2012 | Monitor
Zawahiri's Enemies, Friends and Family Note (January 8): Thanks to Mr. Orange for pointing out the incongruity noted in the first quote. My guess is this was a translator's error. In the second edition of his spiritual autobiography, Knights Under the Banner...
by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Jan 2, 2012 | Monitor
A Study of Knights Under the Banner of the Prophet (2d ed) The Dagestan Bookend “In this way we started our trip of moving among countries.” Zawahiri’s Dagestani interlude in the second edition of Knights Under the Banner of the Prophet (Knights2) — his...
by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Nov 20, 2011 | Monitor
I'm posting an expanded version of the remarks I gave at Newman University in Wichita on November 3, 2011. The linked document consists of the notes, "cleaned up" and organized into something coherent. Download "FacesNotes" (.pdf) I could...
