Talk:Mahmoud Mohamed Ahmed Bahaziq

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Sources[edit]

Some books that have full chapters or significant coverage of the subject:

Kohlmann, Evan (2004). Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe: The Afghan-Bosnian Network. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-85973-807-8. OL 8623582M. Wikidata Q106715164.
Malet, David (23 May 2013). Foreign Fighters: Transnational Identity in Civic Conflicts. Oxford University Press USA. ISBN 978-0-19-993945-9. OL 28504466M. Wikidata Q106715149.
Byman, Daniel (2019). "Barbaros: The Red Beard". Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Armies of Jihad. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-064651-6. OL 28706009M. Wikidata Q106715305.
Li, Darryl (December 2019). The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-1-5036-1088-0. Wikidata Q106367649.

There's also press coverage since the 1990s to present from various WP:RS (as currently cited in the article), but it's generally not great compared to the various books on the subject.

I'm reluctant to use Kohlmann (2004). While it's the most cited work on the subject, it contains quite a few factual errors that were amended by investigation in the last decade. So while it might have been the most appropriate source in 2004, its utility is relatively low in the presence of deeper and more up-to-date research. There's quite a few books from the 2000s that repeat these errors citing Kohlmann. So I will favor more recent sources like Li (2019) which is already used in the article, and maybe Byman (2019) which I couldn't read yet. I only read Malet (2013) partially through Google Books preview but it seems it gets the key facts right too, even if it's somewhat older.

Also note that the real identity of the subject was not known in the 1990s. In very old sources, you may find information about the subject by looking for Abu Abdel Aziz (or various other transliterations) which was his nom de guerre in Bosnia or by Barbaros, a pseudonym also used in Bosnia. Kohlmann covers the Abu Abdel Aziz and Barbaros pseudonyms, and cited a supposed real name which was wrong. I didn't cite this misattributed real name in the article (Li discusses this in-depth), but a footnote could be due. Post-2008 sources are more clear about the real identity and pseudonyms, including UN sanction lists, generalist press, and the more recent books.

Ping Onel5969 for review on the notability issue. MarioGom (talk) 18:47, 5 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]