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15 - From Dabiq to Jerusalem: Trajectories of Contemporary Salafi-jihadi Apocalypticism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2020

By
David Cook
Edited by
Colin McAllister
Colin McAllister
Affiliation:
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
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Summary

Jerusalem and Dabiq are two centers for Muslim apocalyptic events connected in both classical apocalypses, and now in the Salafi-jihadi apocalypse of the Islamic State (ISIS).

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Islamic StateSyriaConstantinopleByzantine Empire
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The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature , pp. 270 - 287
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Selected Further Reading

Cook, David. Contemporary Muslim Apocalyptic Literature. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Cook, David. Studies in Muslim Apocalyptic. Princeton, NJ: Darwin, 2002.Google Scholar
Cook, David, ed. and trans. “The Book of Tribulations”: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Filiu, Jean-Pierre. Apocalypse in Islam. Translated by Debevoise, M. B.. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.Google Scholar
McCants, William. ISIS: The Apocalypse; The History, Strategy and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.Google Scholar

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