ISIS Reader
Subtitle: Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780197501436
Subjects: Sociology
Description: "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."