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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... declared itself the caliphate reborn that summer, it had been ambiguous about the flag's meaning and the cause it represented. Was it the flag of an Islamic state or the flag of the Islamic state, the caliphate that had once ruled land ...
... declared in his pledge to al - Qaeda's leaders , " and their hearts are overjoyed by its method there . " " Perhaps , " wrote Zarqawi , the group would establish the “ caliphate according to the " 25 prophetic method . ” As we will see.
... declared itself too soon . In the spring of 2007 , a senior al - Qaeda leader , Abu al - Walid al - Ansari , asked a string of pointed questions of the group . Why had the state been declared now rather than later ? Had its appointment ...
... declare a state in Afghanistan in the 1990s because he actually ruled it at the time ; Abu Umar al - Baghdadi ruled nothing . Declaring a state in Iraq under false pretenses , al - Ali charged , had divided the jihadist movement in Iraq ...
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