Island of Isis
Author | : William MacQuitty |
Publisher | : Scribner Book Company |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William MacQuitty |
Publisher | : Scribner Book Company |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Eugene Cruz-Uribe |
Publisher | : Lockwood Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2016-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1937040488 |
This volume publishes 534 new Demotic graffiti recorded at the temple of Isis on Philae Island, presented with drawings and photographs. New editions of 101 of the graffiti that were published by F. Griffith in his Catalogue of the Demotic Papyri in the Dodecaschoenus (1937) are published here. These reedited texts were mainly chosen because new drawings provided significant new readings from those made by Griffith, or they helped elucidate the scope and meaning of some of the new graffiti by placement. The volume also includes an essay interpreting the role of the graffiti in understanding the political and religious activities at Philae temple during the last centuries of worship of the goddess Isis, mainly by Nubian priests and pilgrims.
Author | : Jason Warner |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2022-04-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0197650309 |
In 2019, Islamic State lost its last remaining sliver of territory in Syria, and its Caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed. These setbacks seemed to herald the Caliphate's death knell, and many now forecast its imminent demise. Yet its affiliates endure, particularly in Africa: nearly all of Islamic State's cells on the continent have reaffirmed their allegiance, attacks have continued in its name, many groups have been reinvigorated, and a new province has emerged. Why, in Africa, did the two major setbacks of 2019 have so little impact on support for Islamic State? The Islamic State in Africa suggests that this puzzle can be explained by the emergence and evolution of Islamic State's provinces in Africa, which it calls 'sovereign subordinates'. By examining the rise and development of eight Islamic State 'cells', the authors show how, having pledged allegiance to IS Central, cells evolved mostly autonomously, using the IS brand as a means for accrual of power, but, in practice, receiving relatively little if any direction or material support from central command. Given this pattern, IS Central's relative decline has had little impact on its African affiliates-who are likely to remain committed to the Caliphate's cause for the foreseeable future.
Author | : William MacQuitty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Pierrette Posmowski |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1977* |
Genre | : Temples |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Fawaz A. Gerges |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2021-11-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0691211922 |
An authoritative introduction to ISIS—now expanded and revised to bring events up to the present The Islamic State stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. However, its most striking and distinctive characteristic was its capacity to build governing institutions and a theologically grounded national identity. What explains the rise of ISIS and the caliphate, 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. Moving beyond journalistic accounts, Fawaz Gerges provides a clear and compelling explanation of the deeper conditions that fuel ISIS. This new edition brings the story of ISIS to the present, covering key events—from the military defeat of its territorial state to the death of its leader al-Baghdadi—and analyzing how the ongoing Syrian, Iraqi, and Saudi-Iranian conflict could lead to ISIS’s revival.
Author | : Nadia Murad |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2017-11-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1524760455 |
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE • In this “courageous” (The Washington Post) memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters lived a quiet life. Nadia had dreams of becoming a history teacher or opening her own beauty salon. On August 15th, 2014, when Nadia was just twenty-one years old, this life ended. Islamic State militants massacred the people of her village, executing men who refused to convert to Islam and women too old to become sex slaves. Six of Nadia’s brothers were killed, and her mother soon after, their bodies swept into mass graves. Nadia was taken to Mosul and forced, along with thousands of other Yazidi girls, into the ISIS slave trade. Nadia would be held captive by several militants and repeatedly raped and beaten. Finally, she managed a narrow escape through the streets of Mosul, finding shelter in the home of a Sunni Muslim family whose eldest son risked his life to smuggle her to safety. Today, Nadia's story—as a witness to the Islamic State's brutality, a survivor of rape, a refugee, a Yazidi—has forced the world to pay attention to an ongoing genocide. It is a call to action, a testament to the human will to survive, and a love letter to a lost country, a fragile community, and a family torn apart by war.
Author | : Daniel Byman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019021726X |
Founded as the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan, Al Qaeda achieved a degree of international notoriety with a series of spectacular attacks in the 1990s; however, it was the dramatic assaults on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 9/11 that truly launched Al Qaeda onto the global stage. The attacks endowed the organization with world-historical importance and provoked an overwhelming counterattack by the United States and other western countries. Within a year of 9/11, the core of Al Qaeda had been chased out of Afghanistan and into a variety of refuges across the Muslim world. Splinter groups and franchised offshoots were active in the 2000s in countries like Pakistan, Iraq, and Yemen, but by early 2011, after more than a decade of relentless counterterrorism efforts by the United States and other Western military and intelligence services, most felt that Al Qaeda's moment had passed.
Author | : William Faizi McCants |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2015-09-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1250080908 |
A comprehensive history of ISIS based on insider accounts and secret communications few outsiders have seen
Author | : Lindsey A. Mazurek |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2022-02-24 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1316517012 |
It introduces a religious dimension to the study of ethnic identity and globalization in the provinces of the Roman Empire.