Gnostic Jihadism

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTE ON CONVENTION
PRAFACE
INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 —GNOSTICISM AS A PHILOSOPHICAL CATEGORY: A LITERATURE REVIEW
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Eric Voegelin and the Foundation of a Theoretical Paradigm
1.3 Augusto Del Noce, or Grace Replaced by Revolution
1.4 Hans Jonas: An Existential Gnosticism
1.5 Vittorio Mathieu and Emanuele Samek Lodovici: From Revolution to Protest
1.6 Luciano Pellicani’s Sociological Analysis

CHAPTER 2 — WHAT IS REVOLUTIONARY GNOSTICISM?
2.1 The Gnostic Pattern: Six Features of Revolutionary Gnosticism
2.1.1 Anti-Cosmism
2.1.2 Tripartition of History
2.1.3 Immanentization of the Eschaton
2.1.4 Gnosis
2.1.5 Political-Revolutionary Self-Redemption
2.1.6 Sociological Dualism
2.2 Gnostic Revolutions Throughout History
2.2.1 John of Leiden, the Paraclete of Münster
2.2.2 Puritanism and the Revolution of the Saints
2.2.3 The French Revolution and the True Jacobin Spirit
2.2.4 The Twentieth Century: Bolshevism and Nazism

CHAPTER 3 — RADICAL ISLAM: SALAFISM AND JIHADISM
3.1 Pioneering Studies
3.2 Framing the Study of an Ideology
3.2.1 The First Term: Salafism
3.2.2 The Second Term: Jihadism

CHAPTER 4 — IS SALAFI-JIHADISM AN ADDITIONAL GNOSTIC CHAPTER?
4.1 What is Salafi-Jihadism?
4.2 Essential Salafi-Jihadi Features
4.3 Salafi-Jihadism In Light of the Gnostic Pattern
4.3.1 The Inescapable Background: The Secularization
4.3.2 The World Is Evil: Anti-Cosmism
4.3.3 The Glorious Past: Tripartition of History
4.3.4 An Islamic Humankind: The Immanentization of the Eschaton
4.3.5 The Ultimate Knowledge: The Gnosis
4.3.6 Redemption Anyway: Political-Revolutionary Self-Redemption
4.3.7 The World like a Chessboard: Sociological Dualism

CONCLUSION
APPENDIX — A CONVERSATION WITH LUCIANO PELLICANI
BIBLIOGRAPHY