The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic StateSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 2015 M09 22 - 256 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 and the civil war in Syria, my usual beat, could wait. No one cared. They cared a few days later when the so-called Islamic State group marched across Iraq and conquered its second-largest city, Mosul. Mass executions, enslaved ...
... al-Qaeda group in Syria and Iraq, accompanied by foreboding images of masked jihadists waving the flag. From Morocco to Mindanao, jihadists were fighting under the banner to realize their dark vision of God's rule on earth. Alarmed, the ...
... al-Zarqawi, arrived in Qandahar, Afghanistan, seeking an audience with al-Qaeda's leaders. The young Zarqawi wanted to fo- ment revolution in the Fertile Crescent, the land stretching from the eastern Mediterranean through Iraq. Zarqawi ...
... al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda's leader, Bin Laden, was the son of a wealthy Saudi ... Iraq.9 By the beginning of 2001, Zarqawi was no longer a jihadist neophyte ... al-Din Zengi, the ruthless medieval ruler of a dominion stretching from Aleppo in ...
... al-Din's ambition and remorseless efficiency. In one account, Nur al-Din had ... Iraq played a big role in influencing Abu Mus'ab [al-Zarqawi] in his ... Qaeda and Zarqawi's outfit. After the fall of the Taliban, Zarqawi and Sayf fled ...
Contents
Mahdi and Mismanagement | 31 |
Bannermen | 47 |
Resurrection and Tribulation | 73 |
Sectarian Apocalypse | 99 |
Caliphate Reborn | 121 |
Conclusion | 145 |
Sunni Islamic Prophecies of the End Times | 161 |
The Mahdi Is Preceded by an Islamic State | 177 |
Index | 233 |
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