“Every policymaker and any concerned citizen who wants to understand the rise of ISIS should read this insightful and essential book by one of our greatest scholars of Islamist movements.”──Lawrence Wright, author, Thirteen Days In September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David and Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
“No one knows more about ISIS’s doomsday theology than Will McCants. McCants listens to the group with uncommon care and subtlety, and policymakers need to read this book to understand ISIS’s origins and plans.”──Graeme Wood, Edward R. Murrow Fellow, The Council on Foreign Relations Contributing editor, The Atlantic Lecturer in political science, Yale University
“William McCants sets out to analyse exactly how IS revived to become the fearsome thing it is today.”──The Economist