Scott Atran
Praise for Talking to the Enemy
This deeply researched, wide ranging, and very timely study provides a compelling and often surprising account of what lies behind the jihadi phenomenon . . . . It should be read carefully, and pondered.
Noam Chomsky
Talking to the Enemy is an important book, by turns fascinating, dense, scientific, debatable, illuminating.
David Aaronovitch, The Times
Scott Atran is one of the very few persons who understand religion and have figured out that religion is not about belief and cannot be naively replaced without severe side effects.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan
This deeply researched, wide ranging, and very timely study provides a compelling and often surprising account of what lies behind the jihadi phenomenon . . . . It should be read carefully, and pondered.
Noam Chomsky
Talking to the Enemy is an important book, by turns fascinating, dense, scientific, debatable, illuminating.
David Aaronovitch, The Times
Scott Atran is one of the very few persons who understand religion and have figured out that religion is not about belief and cannot be naively replaced without severe side effects.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan
This deeply researched, wide ranging, and very timely study provides a compelling and often surprising account of what lies behind the jihadi phenomenon . . . . It should be read carefully, and pondered.
Noam Chomsky
Talking to the Enemy is an important book, by turns fascinating, dense, scientific, debatable, illuminating.
David Aaronovitch, The Times
Scott Atran is one of the very few persons who understand religion and have figured out that religion is not about belief and cannot be naively replaced without severe side effects.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan