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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Composers & Musicians BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious IS (Organization) Islamic fundamentalism Jihad LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays Middle East History 1979- Middle East Politics and government 21st century Terrorism Middle East Terrorism Religious aspects IslamGerges, Fawaz A.
Summary: The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. What explains the rise of ISIS and what does it portend for the future of the Middle East? In this book, one of the world's leading authorities on political Islam and jihadism sheds new light on these questions as he provides a unique history of the rise and growth of ISIS. Moving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 956 GERSekulow, Jay
Summary: The world's wealthiest and most powerful jihadists, ISIS originated within Al Qaeda with the goal of creating an Islamic state across Iraq and Syria and unrelenting jihad on Christians. This book gives a better understanding of the modern face of terror, and provides an overview of the laws of war and war crimes. These laws differentiate between the guilty and innocent, and explain why the US...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Howard Books 2014
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 320 SEKWright, Lawrence
Summary: "Ten powerful 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. With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. This collection...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.325 WRICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956 WRIGerges, Fawaz A.
Summary: "The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. What explains the rise of ISIS and what does it portend for the future of the Middle East? In this book, one of the world's leading authorities on political Islam and jihadism sheds new light on these questions as he provides a unique history of the rise and growth of ISIS. Moving...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016