The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic StateMacmillan, 2015 M09 22 - 242 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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... Abu Ubayd, 81 Quraysh tribe, 116, 165, 177, 179–80, 232n2 Ramadan, 27 al-Rashid, Harun, 131–4, 226n50 Robow, Mukhtar (aka Abu Mansur), 64, 203n102 al-Saffah, 27, 133. See also Abbasids Saladin, 9 ... Abu Khalid, 86–8. 240. The isis ...
... Abu Khalid al-Suri, 86 and apocalypticism, 28, 115, 146, 217n22 assumes leadership of al-Qaeda, 78 hearts-and-minds approach of, 8, 11–13, 41, 68, 141, 148 and Islamic State, 41, 78–9, 85, 90–7, 129–30 and Zarqawi, 11–14, 148 al-Zawi ...
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