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A medieval Islam historian's incisive portrait of ISIS, revealing the group's deep ideological and intellectual roots in the earliest days of Islam With tremendous speed, the Islamic State has moved from the margins to the center of life in the Middle East. Despite recent setbacks, its ability to conquer and retain huge swaths of territory has demonstrated its skillful tactical maneuvering, ambition, and staying power. Yet we still know too little about ISIS, particularly about its deeper ideology. In this eye-opening book, David J. Wasserstein offers a penetrating analysis of the movement, looking closely at the thousand-year-old form of Islamic apocalyptic messianism the group draws upon today. He shows how ISIS is not only a military and political movement but also, and primarily, a religious one with a coherent worldview, a patent strategy, and a clear goal: the re-creation of a medieval caliphate. Connecting the group's day-to-day activities and the writings and sayings of its leaders with the medieval Islamic past, Wasserstein provides an insightful and unprecedented perspective on the origins and aspirations of the Islamic State.
Terrorism --- Religious aspects --- Islam --- IS (Organization) --- Terrorism - Religious aspects - Islam --- Terrorists --- Criminals --- Islam and terrorism --- Islam. --- ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) --- ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) --- Daech --- Daeş --- Daesh --- Daʻiş --- Dāʻish --- Daisy --- Dâʼisy al-ʻIrāq wa-asy-Syâm --- Daulah Islamiyah Iraq dan Syam --- Dawlah al-Islāmīyah --- Dawlah al-Islāmiyah fi al-'Irāq wa-al-Shām --- ES --- Estado Islâmico --- Estado Islâmico do Iraque --- Estado Islâmico do Iraque e da Síria --- Estado Islâmico do Iraque e Síria --- IGIL --- IŞİD --- Islamic State --- Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham --- Islamic State of Iraq and Syria --- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant --- Islamskoe gosudarstvo Iraka i Levanta --- ИГИЛ --- Исламское государство Ирака и Леванта --- داعش --- دولة الإسلامية --- دولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام --- History. --- 2000-2099 --- Middle East --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient --- History --- דאעש --- État islamique
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Islam --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Dagestan (Russia) --- RD --- Dagestan Republic (Russia) --- Respublika Dagestan (Russia) --- Daghestan (Russia) --- Dagestanskai︠a︡ A.S.S.R. (R.S.F.S.R.) --- Civilization --- Islamic influences --- Islam - Russia (Federation) - Dagestan - Congresses --- Islam et civilisation --- Daghestan (russie) --- Histoire
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The Septuagint is the most influential of the Greek versions of the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. The exact circumstances of its creation are uncertain, but different versions of a legend about the miraculous nature of the translation have existed since antiquity. Beginning in the Letter of Aristeas, the legend describes how Ptolemy Philadelphus commissioned seventy-two Jewish scribes to translate the sacred Hebrew scriptures for his famous library in Alexandria. Subsequent variations on the story recount how the scribes, working independently, produced word-for-word, identical Greek versions. In the course of the following centuries, to our own time, the story has been adapted and changed by Jews, Christians, Muslims and pagans for many different reasons: to tell a story, to explain historical events and to lend authority to the Greek text for the institutions that used it. This book offers the first account of all of these versions over the last two millennia, providing a history of the uses and abuses of the legend in various cultures around the Mediterranean.
Letter of Aristeas. --- Bible. --- Versions --- Septuagint. --- 221.05*2 --- 221.05*5 --- Septuagint (LXX) en andere Griekse vertalingen --- Oud Testament: vertalingsproblematiek --- Aristeas' epistle --- Aristeas' letter --- Aristeas to Philocrates --- Aristeae Historia LXXII interpretum --- Historia LXXII interpretum --- Aristeae Ad Philocratem epistula --- Ad Philocratem epistula --- Aristeasbrief --- 221.05*5 Oud Testament: vertalingsproblematiek --- 221.05*2 Septuagint (LXX) en andere Griekse vertalingen --- Apocryphal books (Old Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- History and criticism --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion
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Classical Greek literature --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- Filosofie. --- Philosophie ancienne.
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