A short but closely-argued text, it is the culmination of decades of thinking about what drives modern jihadists. Roy’s answer is counterintuitive. “Terrorism”, he writes, “does not arise from the radicalisation of Islam, but from the Islamisation of radicalism.”
13 July 2017, The Tablet
Lure of violence
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