{"product_id":"the-global-appeal-of-islamic-state","title":"The Global Appeal of Islamic State","description":"\u003cp\u003eIslamic State has replaced Al Qaeda as the great\u003cbr\u003e\n global threat of the twenty-first century, the bogeyman we have all \u003cbr\u003e\ncome to fear. But Daesh started as a local movement, rooted in the \u003cbr\u003e\nresentment of the Sunni Arabs of Iraq and Syria. It is they who have \u003cbr\u003e\nlost most in the geo-strategic shift in the balance of power in the \u003cbr\u003e\nregion over the last thirty years, as Iranian-backed Shias have \u003cbr\u003e\nmobilised politically and advanced on the social and economic fronts. \u003cbr\u003e\nHow has Islamic State been able to muster support far beyond its initial\u003cbr\u003e\n constituency in the Arab world and to attract tens of thousands of \u003cbr\u003e\nforeign volunteers, including converts to Islam, and seemingly countless\u003cbr\u003e\n supporters online? In this compelling intervention into the debate \u003cbr\u003e\nabout Islamic State's origins and future prospects, the renowned French \u003cbr\u003e\nsociologist of religion, Olivier Roy, argues that the group mobilised a \u003cbr\u003e\nhighly sophisticated narrative, reviving the myth of the Caliphate and \u003cbr\u003e\nrecasting it into a modern story of heroism, death and nihilism, using a\u003cbr\u003e\n very contemporary aesthetic of violence, well entrenched amid a youth \u003cbr\u003e\nculture that has turned global and violent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Olivier Roy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44228482072636,"sku":"9781849046985","price":1497.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/the-global-appeal-of-islamic-state-9781849046985.jpg?v=1776777441","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/the-global-appeal-of-islamic-state","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}