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Focusing on apocalyptic manifestations found in ISIS propaganda, this book situates the group's agenda in the broader framework of contemporary Muslim thought and explains key topics in millennial thinking within the spiritual context of modern Islamic apocalypticism. Based on the group's primary sources as well as medieval Muslim apocalyptic literature and its modern interpretations, the book analyses the ways ISIS presents its message concerning the Last Days as a meaningful, inventive and frightening expression of collectively shared expectations relating to the supposedly approaching the End Times.

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"It is an unnecessary tragedy that Westerners had to wait almost twenty years to find out what's going on in the minds of the people who have targeted them and their infidel societies for destruction. After almost two decades since 9-11 of westsplaining about global Jihadis and their uses of terror (dying to win, desperation), we begin to see studies that listen to what the Jihadis say and treat them as serious agents in their own right. Such studies inevitably report the prominence of their millennial dreams (global Caliphate) in apocalyptic action (now, this generation). Indeed, were one so inclined, one might suggest that the remarkable strengthening of global Jihad in the 21st century, has been in no small part due to Western researchers inability to conceive of Muslim apocalyptic passions and their capacity for ferocious violence, their enduring ability to recruit.Among the recent crop of books on this topic, none compares with Bronislav Ostřansk�'sThe Jihadist Preachers of the End Times for its scope, conceptual sophistication, thorough empirical research, and penetrating analysis. If you are in religious studies, history, political analysis, security... or if you just want to expand your understanding of human belief and action beyond the straight-jackets of post-colonial political correctness, read this book.-- ""Richard Landes, Historian, Jerusalem"""

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Bronislav Ostřansk� is a research fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. He graduated from Charles University, Prague, specialising in the Arabic language and the history and culture of Islamic countries (Ph.D. in 2005). His research focuses mainly on medieval Islamic thought, especially mysticism (Sufism).

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