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. |
From inside the book
... Twitter. The danse macabre hasn't stopped since. Black flags rose, and government buildings were painted the same ... after the United States invaded Iraq in 2003. Councils and governors advised the caliph, whose provinces stretched from ...
... post private Islamic State memoranda on password- protected discussion forums; other memos were released by the U.S. government, which captured them during raids. Followers and critics of the Islamic State have taken and posted pictures ...
... tweet went viral. Leibowitz also informed Homeland Security.1 When the police arrived, the flag's owner, Mark Dunaway, had no idea anyone had tweeted a picture of it. Dunaway had converted to Islam a decade ago, he explained, and flew ...
... after it proclaimed its statehood in 2006. It certainly wasn't in every “mosque in the world” as Dunaway thought. He and others were confused because the Islamic State had used terror and Twitter to advertise its brand and Islamic ...
... Twitter. “How can we pledge allegiance to Abu Umar al- Baghdadi when we may have pledged allegiance to Mullah Omar ... after the Islamic State's founding, Masri hailed it as an important step in the " program of the Islamic caliphate ...