Sheikh shinqitee biography of mahatma
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Most folk who are into history like to draw parallels and identify patterns in the past that reflect upon the present. As I do also, albeit in a more ambivalent way. Cleaving to Mark (Twain, that is). am fascinated more bygd the rhymes than the repetitions. Five years ago, i wrote Messing with the Mullahs – America’s phoney war? Events in the Middle East since October 7 , not least tit-for-tat aerial exchanges on we have seen in recent months between Israel and Iran, and the potential return of the oförändrad and unchained prodigal son on January 6th render it betydelsefull still. How long will it be before the war drums start beating on the Potomac and the Iran hawks circle over Washington DC seeking the restored king’s feckless and fickle ear? As they say, fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Back then, I wrote:
“The story of the Iranian Revolution is a complex, multidimensional one, and it is difficult for its events and essence to be compressed into brief opinion pieces of an
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Islamic State: The Digital Caliphate
Table of contents :
Contents
Introduction
1. Masters of the Digital Universe
2. The Origins—Part One: Iraq
3. The Origins—Part Two: The Taliban, al Qaeda, and IS
4. The Origins—Part Three: Syria
5. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: A Portrait of Caliph Ibrahim
6. Consolidation and Expansion
7. Within Islamic State
8. The Management of Savagery
9. The Caliph’s Foreign Fighters
A Dangerous Game: The West’s Attempts to Exploit Radical Islam
Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and Islamic State
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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islamic state: The digital caliphate
also by abdel bari atwan The Secret History of al Qaeda After bin Laden: Al Qaeda, the Next Generation A Country of Words: A Palestinian Journey from the Refugee Camp to the Front Page
islamic state The digital caliphate
abdel bari atwan
University of California Press
University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States
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