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The Islamic State has become an entrenched jihadist statelet feeding off the failure of the Iraqi state and the chaos of the Syrian civil war. A new book, The ISIS Apocalypse, provides a detailed history of this singular organisation and its fractured trajectory.
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To gain an in-depth understanding on the circumstances surrounding the “Islamic State’s” declaration of a Caliphate and the extent to which the declaration can be considered as valid and legitimate, Religioscope talks to Dr Reza Pankhurst, a leading scholar on the Caliphate and a well-known Islamic ideologue.
Mahan Abedin is an academic and journalist specialising in Islamic affairs.
The subject of the Islamic Caliphate elicits intense emotions and reactions. On the one hand Western elites have a propensity to reduce the subject to a debate on extremism and radicalisation, and on the other they dismiss it altogether as an impractical dream pursued by eccentric ideologues.
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