Isis In Iraq: The Social And Psychological Foundations Of Terror

When Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi climbed the stairs to the pulpit in the Al Nuri Mosque in Mosul on 29 July 2014 to declare the re-establishment of the caliphate, it was, in many ways, the most important symbolic moment in the rise of a group of Islamist militants who just three years earlier had been a bedeviled cadre of guerillas fighting for their survival in the deserts of Iraq. This band of dogged extremists had gone from near extinction in 2011 to controlling a segment of territory roughly the size of Great Britain in 2014. Not only had they survived and thrived as a fighting force, now they had created their own proto-state--

• | Author: Munqith Dagher, Karl Kaltenthaler, Michele J. Gelfand, Ian Mcculloh
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: May 23, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0197524753
• | ISBN-13: 9780197524756