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Drawing on social movement theory and identity politics, the research links the group’s roots and transformation to Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabization campaign and its transnational Salafi da‘wa. Extensive fieldwork, interviews, and analysis of movement literature show internal Salafi tensions, leadership by Ja’far Umar Thalib, mobilization for the Moluccas, and a jihad activism framed as identity-making drama.","LASKAR JIHAD  \nISLAM, MILITANCY AND THE QUEST FOR IDENTITY IN POST-NEW ORDER INDONESIA  \nLaskar Jihad  \nIslam, strijdvaardig activisme en de zoektocht naar identiteitin het Indonesië na de val van de Nieuwe Orde  \n(met een samenvatting in het Nederlands)  \nProefschrift  \nter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Universiteit Utrecht op gezag van de Rector Magnificus, Prof. Dr. W.H. Gispen, ingevolge het besluit van het College voor Promoties in het openbaar te verdedigen op dinsdag 14 juni 2005 des ochtends te 10.30 uur  \ndoor  \nNoorhaidi  \ngeboren op 7 december 1971 te Amuntai, Indonesië  \nPromotor : Prof. Dr. M.M. van Bruinessen (Universiteit Utrecht, Faculteit der Letteren en International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World)  \nHet onderzoek voor deze dissertatie werd verricht in het kader van het KNAW prioriteitsprogramma \"The Dissemination of Religious Authority in Twentieth-Century Indonesia\", dat wordt uitgevoerd aan het IIAS. Dit promotieonderzoek werd mede mogelijk gemaakt door aanvullende financiëlesteun van het CNWS en het ISIM.  \nLASKAR JIHAD  \nISLAM, MILITANCY AND THE QUEST FOR IDENTITY  \nIN POST-NEW ORDER INDONESIA  \nNoorhaidi  \nCover page design: Noorhaidi  \nPhoto: Gatra 24:7 (5 May 2001)  \nABSTRACT  \nThis study analyses the intellectual and political history of Laskar Jihad, the most spectacular Muslim paramilitary group that emerged in Indonesia in the aftermath of the collapse of the New Order regime in May 1998. Using an interpretive framework derived from social movement theory and identity politics, this study exposes the roots of the group and its transformation into a militant, jihadist movement. Based on extensive fieldwork, numerous interviewsand a study of the movement’s literature, this study demonstrates that the very existence of Laskar Jihad cannot be dissociated from Saudi Arabia’s immensely ambitious global campaign for the Wahhabization of the Muslim umma. Operating under the banner of the transnational Salafi da ‘wa movement, this campaign has succeeded in disseminating the Wahhabi message around the world. The impact of this campaign has been felt in Indonesia since the mid- 1980s, reflecting the success of the movement’s proponents to attract a significant number of followers and establish an exclusive current of Islamic activism.  \nThis study addresses how the rapid efflorescence of the Salafi movement coincided with increasing tension among its protagonists caused by their increasing competition to become the movement’s legitimate representative. Fragmentation and conflict among the Salafis became inevitable. The movement’s main actor was Ja’far Umar Thalib, a typical cadre of Islamism who grew up in the puritanical atmosphere of al-Irsyad and Persis, two reformist Muslim organizations in Indonesia. His militancy matured in Pakistan, and he went to Afghanistan to fight with the Afghan mujāhids. Upon return, he immediately immersed himself in Salafi activism, giving lectures and sermons in Salafi teaching centres scattered among various Indonesian cities. Bolstered by further study with Muqbil ibn Hādī al-Wādi‘ī of Yemen, he quickly emerged asthe movement’s most visible, and leading, authority.  \nUtilizing pre-existing networks and interpersonal bonds formed through his activism in the Salafi movement, Ja’far Umar Thalib mobilized thousands of Salafis and other aspirant mujāhids to join Laskar Jihad. Through conspiracy rhetoric blaming Zionist and Christian international powers for the escalation of the Moluccan conflict, he created a pretext for collective action that encouraged an analytical shift from individuals to groups. Based on this pretext, which was strengthened and legitimized by fatwās from prominent religious authorities in the Middle East, the Salafis justified their actions and created a new collective  \nidentity as heroes for their religion and fellow faithful and as patriots for their beloved state. 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