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Jihad and Death - The Global Appeal of Islamic State (Hardcover)
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Jihad and Death - The Global Appeal of Islamic State (Hardcover)
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Islamic State has replaced Al Qaeda as the great global threat of
the twenty-first century, the bogeyman we have all come to fear.
But Daesh started as a local movement, rooted in the resentment of
the Sunni Arabs of Iraq and Syria. It is they who have lost most in
the geo-strategic shift in the balance of power in the region over
the last thirty years, as Iranian-backed Shias have mobilised
politically and advanced on the social and economic fronts. How has
Islamic State been able to muster support far beyond its initial
constituency in the Arab world and to attract tens of thousands of
foreign volunteers, including converts to Islam, and seemingly
countless supporters online? In this compelling intervention into
the debate about Islamic State's origins and future prospects, the
renowned French sociologist of religion, Olivier Roy, argues that
the group mobilised a highly sophisticated narrative, reviving the
myth of the Caliphate and recasting it into a modern story of
heroism, death and nihilism, using a very contemporary aesthetic of
violence, well entrenched amid a youth culture that has turned
global and violent.
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