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The Islamic State of Iraq ( ISI; Arabic: دولة العراق الإسلامية Dawlat al-ʿIrāq al-ʾIslāmiyyah) was a Salafi jihadist militant organization that fought the forces of the U.S.-led coalition during the Iraqi insurgency. The organization aimed to overthrow the Iraqi federal government and establish an Islamic state governed ...
- History of the Islamic State
The UN headquarters building in Baghdad after the Canal...
- War against the Islamic State
Kurdish-led war. Rojava is a major theater in the war...
- Military of the Islamic State
Military of the Islamic State; Active: 1999–2014 (as an...
- History of the Islamic State
- Historical Islamic States
- Modern Islamic State
- Muslim World Today
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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 ), [86] or Islamic State, ( IS) [87] [88] is a extremist jihadist 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. [89] [90] It operates in Libya, [91 ...
When the group changed its name to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and expanded into Syria in April 2013, it claimed nine Syrian provinces, covering most of the country and lying largely along existing provincial boundaries: Al Barakah (al-Hasakah Governorate), Al Khayr (Deir ez-Zor Governorate), Raqqa, Homs, Halab, Idlib, Hamah, Damascus ...
