May 5, 2020 | Generation Jihad

The Islamic State’s Foundational Texts

Episode 8
May 5, 2020 Generation Jihad

The Islamic State’s Foundational Texts

Episode 8

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Episode 8

Craig Whiteside joins hosts Bill Roggio and Tom Joscelyn to discuss his new book, The ISIS Reader: Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement. Coauthored with Haroro Ingram and Charlie Winter, the book reviews key texts in the evolution of the would-be caliphate. Craig and Bill discuss their time in Iraq, including how they witnessed the earliest days of ISIS.

The Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, Iraq with its leaning minaret from where former ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a caliphate in 2014. (Getty Images)

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