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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... Sunnis . When Sayf finally met Zarqawi , he found him a man of few words who sincerely wanted to bring Sunni Islam back to " the reality of human life . " But Zarqawi did not have a lot of specific ideas for how to do it . Sayf relayed ...
... Sunnis who swept to power in the chaotic aftermath of the Soviet withdrawal from the country in 1989. In medieval Islamic thought , an “ emirate ” ( imara ) , or government of a region , is subordinate to the “ state ” ( dawla ) , the ...
... Sunnis, feared the rise of the country's Shi'i population who had lived under the yoke of Saddam and minority Sunni rule for decades. There was a reckoning coming, and Sunni jihadists and nationalists were willing to put aside their ...
... Sunnis . His strategy was to ignite a sectarian civil war . Popular support mattered far less to Zarqawi than it did to ... Sunni insurgency 23 24 in Iraq . Zarqawi may have wanted to tap into al - Qaeda's network of private Gulf funders ...
... Sunni areas of Iraq until it reached " the level of the caliphate . " The mission of the jihadists thereafter was to protect the caliphate's domain and expand its borders until the Day of Judgment.26 Despite encouraging Zarqawi to ...
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