Encyclopedia of Islam

Further reading: Rohan Gunaratna, Inside Al Qaeda: 

Global Network of Terror (New York: Columbia Uni-

versity Press, 2002); Raymond Ibrahim, The Al Qaeda 

Reader (New York: Random House, 2007); National 

Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United 

States, The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report (New 

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al-Qaida

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York: W.W. Norton, 2004); Osama bin Laden, Mes-

sages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden,

edited by Bruce Lawrence and translated by James 

Howarth (New York: Verso, 2005); Michael Wolfe and 

the Producers of Belief Net, eds., Taking Back Islam: 

American Muslims Reclaim Their Faith (Emmaus, Pa.: 

Rodale, 2002); Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: 

Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (New York: Random 

House, 2006).