The Literature of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba : Deadly Lines of Control

This book presents a rare glimpse into the rhetorical machinations of one of the world's most brutal terrorist groups. For scholars of terrorist literature, there is no comparable product on this group or other groups in South Asia.

Since its inception in Afghanistan in the late 1980s, the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT), also known as the Jamaat-ul-Dawa (JuD), has arguably been the most threatening and disruptive terrorist organization in South Asia and beyond. While there is considerable scholarship on its history and operations, few scholars have exploited the organization''s vast publications. This volume is the first scholarly effort to curate a sample of LeT''s Urdu-language publications and then translate them into English for the scholarly community studying this group and related organizations. While the original texts were written and published by Dar al Andalus, which exclusively publishes LeT''s books, pamphlets, posters, speeches, and other materials with the explicit intention of diffusing the group''s ideology, raising funds, and cultivating volunteers for the organization, the authors hope that by rendering the group''s materials more accessible, this book can contribute to the myriad efforts to combat such groups and the violence they perpetrate.