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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... Islamic State group marched across Iraq and conquered its second-largest city, Mosul. Mass executions, enslaved women, and crucifixions soon followed, parading across cable news and Twitter. The danse macabre hasn't stopped since. Black ...
... Islamic State's propaganda is in Arabic and cloaked in medieval theological language that confuses Arabic-speaking Muslims, much less English-speaking non-Muslims. The Islamic State's bureaucracy is layered in secrecy, and few details ...
... Muslims and even Middle East experts, did not know the flag was designed by an al-Qaeda offshoot, the Islamic State, after it proclaimed its statehood in 2006. It certainly wasn't in every “mosque in the world” as Dunaway thought. He ...
The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State William McCants. Atiyya observed , if you want “ to destroy a power and a state and erect on its rubble the state of Islam . ” 32 " What am I commanding you to do ? ” Atiyya ...
The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State William McCants. The Islamic State called its mysterious leader the " commander of the faithful " to encourage jihadists to think of him as the caliph without 40 explicitly ...
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