Foundations Of The Islamic State

Author : Patrick B. Johnston
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833091794
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundations of the Islamic State written by Patrick B. Johnston and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from 140 recently declassified documents, this report comprehensively examines the organization, territorial designs, management, personnel policies, and finances of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) and al-Qa‘ida in Iraq. Analysis of the Islamic State predecessor groups is more than a historical recounting. It provides significant understanding of how ISI evolved into the present-day Islamic State and how to combat the group.

Author : Robert Manne
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 163388371X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mind of the Islamic State written by Robert Manne and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the evolution of the ISIS ideology, from its origins in the prison writings of the revolutionary jihadist Sayyid Qutb, through the thinking of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a book that is essential reading for anyone concerned about terrorist violence. --Publisher

Author : Jason Warner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197650309
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Islamic State in Africa written by Jason Warner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2019, Islamic State lost its last remaining sliver of territory in Syria, and its Caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed. These setbacks seemed to herald the Caliphate's death knell, and many now forecast its imminent demise. Yet its affiliates endure, particularly in Africa: nearly all of Islamic State's cells on the continent have reaffirmed their allegiance, attacks have continued in its name, many groups have been reinvigorated, and a new province has emerged. Why, in Africa, did the two major setbacks of 2019 have so little impact on support for Islamic State? The Islamic State in Africa suggests that this puzzle can be explained by the emergence and evolution of Islamic State's provinces in Africa, which it calls 'sovereign subordinates'. By examining the rise and development of eight Islamic State 'cells', the authors show how, having pledged allegiance to IS Central, cells evolved mostly autonomously, using the IS brand as a means for accrual of power, but, in practice, receiving relatively little if any direction or material support from central command. Given this pattern, IS Central's relative decline has had little impact on its African affiliates-who are likely to remain committed to the Caliphate's cause for the foreseeable future.

Author : Feisal al-Istrabadi
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815732171
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of ISIS written by Feisal al-Istrabadi and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking to the future in confronting the Islamic State The Islamic State (best known in the West as ISIS or ISIL) has been active for less than a decade, but it has already been the subject of numerous histories and academic studies—all focus primarily on the past. The Future of ISIS is the first major study to look ahead: what are the prospects for the Islamic State in the near term, and what can the global community, including the United States, do to counter it? Edited by two distinguished scholars at Indiana University, the book examines how ISIS will affect not only the Middle East but the global order. Specific chapters deal with such questions as whether and how ISIS benefitted from intelligence failures, and what can be done to correct any such failures; how to confront the alarmingly broad appeal of Islamic State ideology; the role of local and regional actors in confronting ISIS; and determining U.S. interests in preventing ISIS from gaining influence and controlling territory. Given the urgency of the topic, The Future of ISIS is of interest to policymakers, analysts, and students of international affairs and public policy.

Author : Ali Abdel Razek
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748689400
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam and the Foundations of Political Power written by Ali Abdel Razek and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The translation of an essay first published in Egypt in 1925, which took the contemporaries of its author by storm. At a time when the Muslim world was in great turmoil over the question of the abolition of the caliphate by Mustapha Kamal Ataturk in Turke

Author : Wael B. Hallaq
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231530862
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impossible State written by Wael B. Hallaq and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wael B. Hallaq boldly argues that the "Islamic state," judged by any standard definition of what the modern state represents, is both impossible and inherently self-contradictory. Comparing the legal, political, moral, and constitutional histories of premodern Islam and Euro-America, he finds the adoption and practice of the modern state to be highly problematic for modern Muslims. He also critiques more expansively modernity's moral predicament, which renders impossible any project resting solely on ethical foundations. The modern state not only suffers from serious legal, political, and constitutional issues, Hallaq argues, but also, by its very nature, fashions a subject inconsistent with what it means to be, or to live as, a Muslim. By Islamic standards, the state's technologies of the self are severely lacking in moral substance, and today's Islamic state, as Hallaq shows, has done little to advance an acceptable form of genuine Shari'a governance. The Islamists' constitutional battles in Egypt and Pakistan, the Islamic legal and political failures of the Iranian Revolution, and similar disappointments underscore this fact. Nevertheless, the state remains the favored template of the Islamists and the ulama (Muslim clergymen). Providing Muslims with a path toward realizing the good life, Hallaq turns to the rich moral resources of Islamic history. Along the way, he proves political and other "crises of Islam" are not unique to the Islamic world nor to the Muslim religion. These crises are integral to the modern condition of both East and West, and by acknowledging these parallels, Muslims can engage more productively with their Western counterparts.

Author : Graeme Wood (Journalist)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0812988752
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Way of the Strangers written by Graeme Wood (Journalist) and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Way of the Strangers is an intimate journey into the minds of the Islamic State's true believers. From the streets of Cairo to the mosques of London, Wood interviews supporters, recruiters, and sympathizers of the group...Wood speaks with non-Islamic State Muslim scholars and jihadists, and explores the group's idiosyncratic, coherent approach to Islam...Through character study and analysis, Wood provides a clear-eyed look at a movement that has inspired so many people to abandon or uproot their families.

Author : Mohammad-Mahmoud Mohamedou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786801708
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Theory of ISIS written by Mohammad-Mahmoud Mohamedou and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Seth G. Jones
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833098101
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rolling Back the Islamic State written by Seth G. Jones and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Islamic State has lost substantial amounts of territory but continues to conduct and inspire attacks around the world. This report assesses the threat the Islamic State poses to the United States and examines strategies to counter the group and prevent a resurgence of the Islamic State or other Salafi-jihadist groups.

Author : James Piscatori
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108481256
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam Beyond Borders written by James Piscatori and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing how the one community of the faith in the Qur'an, the umma, affects competing politics of identity in the Muslim world.