The ISIS reader : milestone texts of the Islamic State movement / Haroro J. Ingram, Craig Whiteside, Charlie Winter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ingram, Haroro J., author.

Whiteside, Craig, author.

Winter, Charlie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

IS (Organization).

Middle East--Politics and government--21st century.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 326 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Going beyond the descriptive and the sensationalist, this volume presents and analyses a series of milestone Islamic State primary source materials. Scholar-practitioners with field experience in confronting the movement explore and contextualise its approach to warfare, propaganda and governance, examining the factors behind its dramatic evolution from failed proto-state in 2010 to standard-bearer of global jihadism in 2014, to besieged insurgency in 2018. The ISIS Reader will help anyone--students and journalists, military personnel, civil servants and inquisitive observers--to better understand not only the evolution of Islamic State and the dynamics of asymmetric warfare, but the importance of primary sources in doing so."

Contents:

Introduction

Part I. Join the caravan

1. The first speeches (1994 & 2004)

2. Zarqawi's strategy (2004)

Part II. Baqiya!

3. The first year of the Islamic State (2006 & 2007)

4. Advice to the leaders of the Islamic States (2007)

5. The Fallujah Memorandum (2009)

Part III. The Caliphate

6. The Declaration of the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (2013)

7. The Caliphate rises (2014)

8. Global War (2014)

9. Women in the Islamic State (2015)

10. Media Jihad (2016)

Part IV. Purification

11. The structure of the Caliphate (2016)

12. Defining success and failure (2016)

13. Patience (2018)

14. A global insurgency (2019)

15. The guerrilla Caliph (2019)

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-752078-2

0-19-753602-6

OCLC:

1147262480