ISIS : the terror nation / Loretta Napoleoni.

"From its birth in the late 1990s as the jihadist dream of terrorist leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the Islamic State (known by a variety of names, including ISIS, ISIL, and al Qaeda in Iraq) has grown into a massive enterprise, redrawing national borders across the Middle East and subjecting an area...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Islamist phoenix
Main Author: Napoleoni, Loretta (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Seven Stories Press, [2017]
Edition:Updated edition of The Islamist Phoenix.
Subjects:
IS (Organization)
Middle East > History > 21st century.
Islamic fundamentalism > History > 21st century.
Terrorism > Middle East.
Islamic fundamentalism.
Terrorism.
Middle East.
2000-2099
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xii, 193 pages ; 18 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • From Al Zarqawi to Al Baghdadi
  • Rehearsals for the caliphate
  • The paradox of the new Rome
  • The Islamist phoenix
  • The modern jihad
  • Radical Salafism
  • The new Mongols
  • Contemporary pre-modern wars
  • Jihadist Cinderellas
  • ISIS economics
  • Know thy enemy.