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Islamic State of Iraq traces its origins to Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (JTJ) group, which was formed by the Jordanian national Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Jordan in 1999. Al-Zarqawi led the group, until his death in June 2006.
- History of the Islamic State
In 2014, ISIL proclaimed itself a worldwide caliphate and...
- Military of the Islamic State
An IS command and control center in Raqqa in 2014. According...
- Islamic state
Essence of Islamic governments. The essence or guiding...
- Ideology of the Islamic State
t. e. The ideology of the Islamic State, sometimes called...
- History of the Islamic State
Isis wall painting in the tomb of Seti I . Isis was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world.
In 2014, ISIL proclaimed itself a worldwide caliphate and changed its name to the Islamic State which in a year grew to control territory with a population of millions. On 27 October 2019, the Islamic State's "caliph" killed himself to avoid capture. [2]
An IS command and control center in Raqqa in 2014. According to the Institute for the Study of War, IS's 2013 annual report reveals a metrics -driven military command, which is "a strong indication of a unified, coherent leadership structure that commands from the top down". [38]
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Majid Khaddurigives six stages of history for the Islamic state: 1. City-state (622–632) 2. Imperial (632–750) 3. Universal (c.750–900) 4. Decentralization (c.900–1500) 5. Fragmentation (c.1500–1918 ) 6. Nation states (1918–present)
Development of the notion of dawla
The Arabic word dawla comes from the root d-w-l, meaning "to turn, come around in a cyclical fashion". In the Quran, it is used to refer to the nature of human fortunes, alternating between victory and defeat (3:140). This use led Arab writers to apply the word to succession of dynasties, particularly to the overthrow of the Umayyads of Damascus by the Abbasids. The first Abbasid caliphs themselves spoke of "our dawla" in the sense of "our turn/time of success". As Abbasids maintained their p...
Development of Modern Conception of Islamic state
According to Pakistani scholar of Islamic history Qamaruddin Khan, the term Islamic state "was never used in the theory or practice of Muslim political science, before the twentieth century". Sohail H. Hashmi characterizes dawla Islamiyya as a neologism found in contemporary Islamist writings. Islamic theories of the modern notion of state first emerged as a reaction to the abolition of the Ottoman caliphate in 1924. It was also in this context that the famous dictum that Islam is both a reli...
Today, many Muslim countries have incorporated Islamic law in part into their legal systems. Certain Muslim states have declared Islam to be their state religion in their constitutions, but do not apply Islamic law in their courts. Islamic states which are not Islamic monarchies are usually referred to as Islamic republics, such as the islamic repu...
Ankerl, Guy (2000). Contemporary Coexisting Civilizations. Arabo-Muslim, Bharati, Chinese, and Western. Geneva: INUPress. pp. 5001. ISBN 2-88155-004-5.
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), or Islamic State, (IS) is a Islamist militant group. In Arabic it is often called the phrase "Daesh" but it is disliked by the group which causes enemies of the group to use the phrase.
t. e. The ideology of the Islamic State, sometimes called Islamic Statism, has been described as being a hybrid of Salafism, Salafi jihadism, [1] [2] Sunni Islamist fundamentalism, [3] Wahhabism, [4] [5] and Qutbism.
