Behnam Said

Behnam Timo Said (* 1982 ) is a German scholar of Islam and books, and a former intelligence analyst.

Career

Said studied Islamic studies, political science, and social and economic history in Hamburg. Until January 2018 he worked as an Islamic scholar at the Office for the Protection of the Constitution of the Ministry of the Interior and Sport Hamburg . He has been working for the Hamburg judicial authority since February 2018. In 2014 he completed his doctorate at the University of Jena on the subject of "Anaschid - Hymns in the Context of Jihadist Mobilization and Propaganda". Said is the author of several specialist books and articles on the topics of Islamism, Salafism and Jihadism. Said's research on jihadist hymns and poems, which he examined from the perspective of social movement theory as a means of mobilizing the jihadist movement, met with particular interest in the professional world and in the media, both in German-speaking countries and internationally .

Said's book "Islamic State - IS-Militia, al-Qaida and the German Brigades", which was the first German-language monograph on the then newly proclaimed " Islamic State " and on the Syrian conflict , was also widely received .

Works (selection)

Salafism - In Search of True Islam. Eds. Behnam Said & Hazim Fouad , Herder, Freiburg 2014.
Islamic State - IS militia, al-Qaida and the German brigades. CH Beck, Munich 2015.
Hymns of Jihad: Nashids in the Context of Jihadist Mobilization. Ergon, Nuremberg 2016.
History of Al Qaeda: Bin Laden, September 11th, and the Thousand Fronts of Terror today. CH Beck, Munich 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Dr. Behnam Said. Accessed March 31, 2018 .
^ Jihadi music: A reading list. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 23, 2015 ; accessed on May 13, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Aaron Y. Zelin: GUEST POST: A Brief Look at the History and Power of Anasheed in Jihadist Culture. May 31, 2012, accessed May 13, 2017 .
^ Ronen Steinke : Jihad-Pop . In: sueddeutsche.de . July 22, 2016, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on May 13, 2017]).
^ Joas Wagemakers: Review . In: Comparative Islamic Studies . tape 10 , no. 1 . Sheffield 2014, p. 115-117 .
↑ Yassin Musharbash : Islamism: The Soundtrack of Jihad . In: The time . July 1, 2016, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed on May 13, 2017]).
↑ Islamic State. In: Perlentaucher.de. Retrieved on March 31, 2018 (review notes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of November 29, 2014 and November 18, 2014 and the Süddeutsche Zeitung of November 4, 2014).

personal data
SURNAME	Said, Behnam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Said, Behnam Timo (full name); Said, Behnam T.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Islamic scholar and secret service employee
DATE OF BIRTH	1982

[1] Dr. Behnam Said. Accessed March 31, 2018 .

[2] Jihadi music: A reading list. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 23, 2015 ; accessed on May 13, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[3] Aaron Y. Zelin: GUEST POST: A Brief Look at the History and Power of Anasheed in Jihadist Culture. May 31, 2012, accessed May 13, 2017 .

[4] Ronen Steinke : Jihad-Pop . In: sueddeutsche.de . July 22, 2016, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on May 13, 2017]).

[5] Joas Wagemakers: Review . In: Comparative Islamic Studies . tape 10 , no. 1 . Sheffield 2014, p. 115-117 .

[6] Yassin Musharbash : Islamism: The Soundtrack of Jihad . In: The time . July 1, 2016, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed on May 13, 2017]).

[7] Islamic State. In: Perlentaucher.de. Retrieved on March 31, 2018 (review notes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of November 29, 2014 and November 18, 2014 and the Süddeutsche Zeitung of November 4, 2014).