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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... Abu Mus'ab al- Zarqawi , arrived in Qandahar , Afghanistan , seeking an audience with al- Qaeda's leaders . The young Zarqawi wanted to foment revolution in the Fertile Crescent , the land stretching from the eastern Mediterranean ...
... Muslim historian euphemistically put it. When crusader reinforcements arrived to lift the siege, they saw the citadel wall “and the dwelling of its inhabitants were entirely in ruins.” 11 “[Zarqawi] was ... Abu Mus'ab [ al - Zarqawi ] in his.
... Abu Mus'ab [ al - Zarqawi ] in his decision to go to Iraq after the fall of the Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan " in 2001 . 12 The “ Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan ” had been established in 1996 by the Taliban , conservative Sunnis who ...
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