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" ISIS: The rise and fall of a self-declared caliphate "
Mohamed Mohamed
Faghfoory, Mohammed H.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804015
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TL48827
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1806944420; 10124152
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Qusti, Eman S.
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ISIS: The rise and fall of a self-declared caliphate\ Mohamed MohamedFaghfoory, Mohammed H.
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The George Washington University
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2016
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M.A.
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Religion
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2016
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51
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-82278-5
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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.
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Religion; Islamic Studies; Middle Eastern Studies; Political science
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Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Al-Qaeida;ISIS;Khilapha;Radicalization;Terrorism
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Faghfoory, Mohammed H.
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ReligionThe George Washington University
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