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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... Apocalyptic (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, No. 21) (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2002), 156. 117. On the apocalyptic moment, see Richard Landes, Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of Millennial Experience (New York: Oxford ...
... apocalyptic prophecies and Antichrist, 106–7, 145–7, 166–8, 219n47 appearance of Gog and Magog, 169–70 conquest of Constantinople, 166, 173–4 conquest of Rome, 166, 173 and Dabiq, 102–5, 112, 147, 165, 173 and Damascus, 100, 106, 109–10 ...
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