Background to the Spiritual Manual : its discovery, interrogation, and disregard / Hans G. Kippenberg -- Translation of the Spiritual Manual / Tilman Seidensticker, Albrecht Fuess, Moez Khalfaoui and Hans G. Kippenberg -- The instructions given in the Spiritual Manual and their particular interpretation of Islam / Tilman Seidensticker -- The religious and historical background of suicide attacks in the name of Islam / Tilman Seidensticker -- Jihad and changing times : the political theology of Usama bin Ladin and his declarations of war / Thomas Scheffler -- Defining the present situation of Muslims and re-enacting the prophet's ghazwas / Hans G. Kippenberg -- The social matrix of the attack / Hans G. Kippenberg -- Jihad hymns as a means of self-motivation in the Hamburg group/ Tilman Seidensticker -- The Arabic text of the Spiritual Manual/ Tilman Seidensticker, Albrecht Fuess and Moez Khalfaoui.