The ISIS reader milestone texts of the Islamic State movement / Haroro J. Ingram, Craig Whiteside, Charlie Winter.
| Author/creator | Ingram, Haroro J. |
| Other author | Whiteside, Craig, 1969- |
| Other author | Winter, Charlie. |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020] |
| Description | vii, 326 pages ; 22 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "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." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020276284 |
| ISBN | 0197501435 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9780197501436 (hardcover) |