- Description
- 1 online resource (262 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Uniform Title
- ISIS in Iraq (Online)
- Alternative Title
- ISIS in Iraq (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Needs, Networks, and Narratives: An Explanation of Social Support for Violent Extremists -- The Prelude to ISIS -- The Rise of ISIS -- Joining ISIS -- Life under ISIS -- The Decline of the ISIS Caliphate -- After the ISIS Caliphate -- Conclusion.
- LCCN
- 2023006086
- OCLC
- ssj0002824655
- Author
Dagher, Munqith.
- Title
ISIS in Iraq [electronic resource] : the social and psychological foundations of terror / Munqith Dagher, Karl Kaltenthaler, Michele J. Gelfand, Arie Kruglanski, and Ian McCulloh.
- Imprint
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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