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The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State
St. Martin's Press
October 2015
On Sale: September 22, 2015
256 pages
ISBN: 1250080908
EAN: 9781250080905
Kindle: B00V38KC1A
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
The Islamic State is one of the most lethal and successful
jihadist groups in modern history, surpassing even al-Qaeda.
Thousands of its followers have marched across Syria and
Iraq, subjugating millions, enslaving women, beheading
captives, and daring anyone to stop them. Thousands more have spread terror beyond the Middle East
under the Islamic State's black flag. How did the Islamic State attract so many followers and
conquer so much land? By being more ruthless, more
apocalyptic, and more devoted to state-building than its
competitors. The shrewd leaders of the Islamic State
combined two of the most powerful yet contradictory ideas in
Islam-the return of the Islamic Empire and the end of the
world-into a mission and a message that shapes its strategy
and inspires its army of zealous fighters. They have defied conventional thinking about how to wage
wars and win recruits. Even if the Islamic State is
defeated, jihadist terrorism will never be the same. 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' 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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