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The modern father of the idea of an Islamic Caliphate was the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). And even though ISIS is retreating in Iraq and Syria, due to the NATO bombings, the idea of an Islamic State is becoming more and more popular in the Muslim world.
More and more terrorist groups pledge their allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syira. This essay examines the paradox of a shrinking Islamic State in Iraq and Syria with a rising popularity.
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Iakovos Alhadeff
I have studied economics to postgraduate level. I never worked as an economist though. I worked in the field of charter accountancyand I completed the relevant professional exams (the Greek equivalent of the English A.C.A.). My essays are written for the general reader with no economic or accounting knowledge, and the emphasis is on intuition. All my documents are extremely pro market and quite anti-socialist in nature. I admire economists from the Chicago and the Austrian School i.e. Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Murray Rothbard. I am Greek and English is not my first language, so I hope you will excuse potential errors in my syntax.
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The Discreet Charm of the Islamic Caliphate - Iakovos Alhadeff
The Discreet Charm of the Islamic Caliphate
Iakovos Alhadeff
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Copyright © 2016, Iakovos Alhadeff
Table of Contents
The Secret Charm of the Islamic Caliphate
The Islamic State and Al-Qaeda
The Secret Charm of the Islamic State Revisited
Articles
The Secret Charm of the Islamic Caliphate
A very good article from the American think tank Middle East Institute, about the secret charm of the Islamic Caliphate. See The Shifting Definition of ISIS' Caliphate
, August 2016.
The article wonders why is it that more and more terrorist groups are pledging their allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), when ISIS is retreating, losing more and more ground, due to the attacks of the NATO bombings. What is the secret charm of the Islamic Caliphate, why it is losing on the ground but it is gaining in popularity in the world of terror?
Map The Dream of the Islamic Caliphate
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