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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... political fortunes, and what will happen if those fortunes change again. Like most of what the Islamic State does, its extreme brutality defies the conventional jihadist playbook. We're used to thinking of al-Qaeda's former leader Osama ...
... political and religious leaders of the early Muslim community . He also believed the modern Shi'i state of Iran colluded with the West to oppress Sunnis . When Sayf finally met Zarqawi , he found him a man of few words who sincerely ...
... political goals. When he applied for membership in al-Qaeda in February 2004, he did not mention an Islamic state or a plan for achieving it. Rather, he explained his strategy for winning over the Sunnis, defeating the transitional ...
... political considerations that they saw in Iraq at that time.” 48 Masri was attempting to preserve the Islamic State's ties to al-Qaeda while encouraging the public to think of it as a separate entity. He wanted the world to view his ...
... political gaffes . " " You must have heard Abu Umar's recent sermon , " he wrote , referring to the Islamic State's nominal leader , Abu Umar al - Baghdadi . “ In my view , it was filled with obvious errors . There were things in it ...
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