عنوان

ISIS: The rise and fall of a self-declared caliphate

Number

TL48827

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

ISIS: The rise and fall of a self-declared caliphate

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Mohamed Mohamed

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Faghfoory, Mohammed H.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The George Washington University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2016

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

51

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-82278-5

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

M.A.

Discipline of degree

Religion

Body granting the degree

The George Washington University

Text preceding or following the note

2016

Text of Note

Khilaphah is at the heart of IS's strategy to lure Muslims to their ideology and it is one of the most important factors that are conducive to the migration of western young Muslims to fight for this self-declared state. Given the fact that Muslims in the Western countries are experiencing a number of difficulties i.e. identity crisis, marginalization, descocializtion, etc., the Islamic caliphate has represented a way out of these issues where, according to what they believe in, there is no discrimination and where they can build the utopic society that they have been looking for. Therefore, they [Western IS foreign fighters] left their relatively luxurious lives in the West and migrated to these conflict zones with the hope of participating in the process of building their "long-awaited" Islamic State. However, many of the foreign fighters who travelled to join IS discovered that the the utopian state that they migrated for did not come up to their expectations and was merely a myth and. They were stricken by the fact that IS is neither Islamic nor a state. The infighting, brutality, un-Islamic nature of IS's actions, and the poor quality of life under the terrorist organization made many of IS foreign fighters flee the organization. In addition, the counter-narration approach - adopted by several countries and aims at countering IS's message - played a great role in dissuading a number of the FTFs and made them go back to their homelands. Therefore, despite the sudden rise of IS and its relative success in luring young Muslims all over the world, there are several indications that the organizations will not survive for long time, especially under the constant strikes of the US-led coalition.

Religion; Islamic Studies; Middle Eastern Studies; Political science

Subject Term

Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Al-Qaeida;ISIS;Khilapha;Radicalization;Terrorism

Qusti, Eman S.

Faghfoory, Mohammed H.

Subdivision

Religion

The George Washington University

Call Number

1806944420; 10124152

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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