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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... jihadists were fighting under the banner to realize their dark vision of God's rule on earth. Alarmed, the passerby ... jihadist proudly displaying his colors in America guaranteed the tweet went viral. Leibowitz also informed Homeland ...
... jihadists read into the flag and the “state” what they would. And read into them they did, with many taking up the ... jihadists that in 2014 the organization supplanted its former master, al-Qaeda, to lead the global jihadist movement ...
... jihadists think about acquiring power and holding onto it. Although it took nearly a decade to play itself out, the Islamic State was destined to fall out with al-Qaeda from the start. Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his deputy ...
... jihadists from Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and Turkey. Herat was chosen because of its proximity to the ... jihadist neophyte in the eyes of Sayf. He had “begun to think and plan strategically for the future.” Reading widely about ...
... jihadists today sometimes use “state” and “emirate” interchangeably when talking about the government of a country ... jihadist groups such as al-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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