Al-Qaeda: From Global Network to Local Franchise

9/11 and the anxious search for answers -- What is al-Qaeda? From Afghanistan to 9/11 -- Hypocrites, Wahhabis and Salafi jihadis: post-9/11 explanations of al-Qaeda's ideology -- Reclaiming the umma: the ideology of al-Qaeda in the context of the pan-Islamic tradition -- Al-Qaeda post-9/11: destroyed, weakened or re-emergent? -- The future of al-Qaeda.