The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic StateMacmillan + ORM, 2015 M09 22 - 258 pages Based almost entirely on primary sources in Arabic--including ancient religious texts and secret al-Qaeda and Islamic State letters that few have seen--William McCants's The ISIS Apocalypse explores how religious fervor, strategic calculation, and doomsday prophecy shaped the Islamic State's past and foreshadow its dark future. |
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... al - Qaeda in Iraq , the Islamic State made no mention of al - Qaeda or of members ' preexisting oaths of allegiance to Bin Laden or to Mullah Omar , the head of the Taliban.42 Only four months earlier , Abu Ayyub al - Masri ( aka Abu Hamza ...
... Abu Umar al-Baghdadi not just named a governor under the authority of the commander of the faithful, Mullah Omar? 44 ... Ayyub al-Masri, assured his bosses that the “commander of the faithful,” Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, had pledged an oath ...
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