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ISIS
- Author : Michael Weiss,Hassan Hassan
- Publisher : Simon and Schuster
- Release : 29 January 2015
A revelatory look inside the world's most dangerous terrorist group. Initially dismissed by US President Barack Obama, along with other fledgling terrorist groups, as a “jayvee squad” compared to al-Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has shocked the world by conquering massive territories in both countries and promising to create a vast new Muslim caliphate that observes the strict dictates of Sharia law. In ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, American journalist Michael Weiss and Syrian analyst
The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI)
- Author : Apuleius of Madauros
- Publisher : BRILL
- Release : 01 December 1975
ISIS
- Author : Fawaz A. Gerges
- Publisher : Princeton University Press
- Release : 02 November 2021
An authoritative introduction to ISIS—now expanded and revised to bring events up to the present The Islamic State stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. However, its most striking and distinctive characteristic was its capacity to build governing institutions and a theologically grounded national identity. What explains the rise of ISIS and the caliphate, and what does it portend for the future of the Middle East? In this book, one of the world’s
Rise of ISIS
- Author : Jay Sekulow,Jordan Sekulow,Robert W Ash,David French
- Publisher : Simon and Schuster
- Release : 14 October 2014
Argues that the extremist Sunni jihadist group ISIS presents a great danger to the United States and the world, looking at the origin of the group, its objectives, and its unlawful terrorist strategies.
The Future of ISIS
- Author : Feisal al-Istrabadi,Sumit Ganguly
- Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
- Release : 26 June 2018
Looking to the future in confronting the Islamic State The Islamic State (best known in the West as ISIS or ISIL) has been active for less than a decade, but it has already been the subject of numerous histories and academic studies—all focus primarily on the past. The Future of ISIS is the first major study to look ahead: what are the prospects for the Islamic State in the near term, and what can the global community, including the
Black Flags
- Author : Joby Warrick
- Publisher : Anchor Books
- Release : 20 August 2022
"When he succeeded his father in 1999, King Abdullah of Jordan released a batch of political prisoners in the hopes of smoothing his transition to power. Little did he know that among those released was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a man who would go on to become a terrorist mastermind too dangerous even for al-Qaeda and give rise to an Islamist movement bent on dominating the Middle East. Zarqawi began by directing hotel bombings and assassinations in Jordan from a base in
The Terror Years
- Author : Lawrence Wright
- Publisher : Vintage
- Release : 01 July 2017
Several "pieces first published in The New Yorker recall the path terror in the Middle East has taken from the rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s to the recent beheadings of reporters and aid workers by ISIS ... They include an ... impression of Saudi Arabia, a kingdom of silence under the control of the religious police; the Syrian film industry, then compliant at the edges but already exuding a feeling of the barely masked fury that erupted into civil war; [and]
ISIS
- Author : Jessica Stern,J. M. Berger
- Publisher : HarperCollins
- Release : 17 March 2015
The Islamic State, known as ISIS, exploded into the public eye in 2014 with startling speed and shocking brutality. It has captured the imagination of the global jihadist movement, attracting recruits in unprecedented numbers and wreaking bloody destruction with a sadistic glee that has alienated even the hardcore terrorists of its parent organization, al Qaeda. Jessica Stern and J.M. Berger, two of America’s leading experts on terrorism, dissect the new model for violent extremism that ISIS has leveraged into
Fighting ISIS
- Author : Tim Locks
- Publisher : Pan Macmillan
- Release : 14 July 2016
In February 2015, Tim Locks headed to Kurdistan to fight ISIS. After watching images of the Yazidi people being slaughtered, he couldn't sit back and do nothing. Having worked as a prison officer and a bouncer, he knew how to handle himself - and had a huge protective streak. He sold his house to raise money, put himself through arms training and bought his equipment on eBay. In this gripping book he reveals what it is like to fight alongside the
The ISIS Hostage
- Author : Puk Damsgard
- Publisher : Simon and Schuster
- Release : 09 May 2017
In a tense and riveting narrative, The ISIS Hostage details freelance photographer Daniel Rye's 13-month ordeal at the hands of the Islamic State after he was captured in Syria, and the misery inflicted upon him, and 19 other hostages, by their guards.This compelling account also follows Daniel's family and the nerve-wracking negotiations with his kidnappers. It traces their horrifying journey through impossible dilemmas, and offers a rare glimpse into the secret world of the investigation launched to locate and free
Aspects of Apuleius' Golden Ass
- Author : W.H. Keulen,Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser
- Publisher : BRILL
- Release : 23 December 2011
The contributions to this volume on the Isis Book reassess current interpretations, highlight aspects of text, language, and style, and develop new lines of approach regarding the interpretation of this fascinating many-layered text, the last book of Apuleius’ famous novel.
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Isis
- Author : Chris Morgan
- Publisher : Anonim
- Release : 01 February 2016
On Indias south-western or Malabar coast is situated an ancient Hindu temple which is these days devoted to the famous Hindu god Shiva and his consort the fearsome goddess Kali. This is Kurumbha-Bhagavathy Devi outside of the modern city of Cochin or Kochi in Kerala state. Travel back in time and the temple housed other gods. Once it was the home of the Buddhist/Jaina goddess Pattini whose mortal husband was tried and killed in a series of brutal events
Isis in the Graeco-Roman World
- Author : Reginald Eldred Witt
- Publisher : Anonim
- Release : 20 August 1971
Isis in a Global Empire
- Author : Lindsey A. Mazurek
- Publisher : Anonim
- Release : 20 August 2022
"In Isis in a Global Empire, Lindsey Mazurek explores the growing popularity of Egyptian gods and its impact on Greek identity in the Roman Empire. Bringing together archaeological, art historical, and textual evidence, she demonstrates how the diverse devotees of gods such as Isis and Sarapis considered Greek ethnicity in ways that differed significantly from those of the Greek male elites whose opinions have long shaped our understanding of Roman Greece. These ideas were expressed in various ways-sculptures of Egyptian
The Four Greek Hymns of Isidorus and the Cult of Isis
- Author : Vera Frederika Vanderlip,of the Fayum ISIDORUS
- Publisher : A.M. Hakkert
- Release : 20 August 1972