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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... Yazidis, 111–14 See also Mahdi (Muslim savior, “the Rightly-Guided One”) apocalypticism and Abbasids, 27, 147 and Abu Mus'ab al-Suri, 29, 86 and al-Qaeda, 27–9 and AQAP, 50–1 apocalyptic propaganda and rhetoric, 24, 27–8, 147, 154 ...
... Yazidis, 111–13 Iraq and al-Sham (the Levant) al-Iraqi, Abu Maryam, 98 (2013), 91–2 al-Iraqi, Abu Usama (nom de guerre), flag of, 5–6, 19–22, 45, 48–9, 64, 36–7 69–71, 104, 110–11, 121, 124–6 Iraqi Hizballah, 108 and jihadism, 3, 19, 21 ...
... Yazidis, 111–13 and young women recruits, 113–14 See also al-Masri, Abu Ayyub; al-Baghdadi, Abu Bakr; alBaghdadi, Abu Umar Istanbul, Turkey, 105. See also Constantinople Ja'far the Barmakid, 132,222n108 Jandal, Abu, 29 al-Jawlani, Abu ...
... Yazidis, 111–13 Yemen, 47–55, 59, 61, 69, 74, 140–1, 153, 155, 167, 171, 196n13 al-Qaeda in Yemen, 47–9, 52, 158 al-Zarqawi, Abu Mus'ab, 7–15, 35–6, 61 and Abd al-Rahman, 19–20, 55 admiration for Nur al-Din Zengi, 8–9, 121, 123 and al ...
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