ISIS: Inside the army of terror. By Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan. Regan Arts. New York, 2015. Pp. 270. ISBN: 978-1-941393-57-4

• Main Author: Abdel Salam, El Fatih Abdullahi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bangladesh Institute of Islamic Thought 2017
• Subjects: JA Political science (General)
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/59609/1/59609_ISIS-%20Inside%20the%20army%20of%20terror.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/59609/; http://www.ijits.net/book-reviews-isis-inside-army-terror-michael-weiss-hassan-hassan-regan/

With brutal force and horrific beheadings of hostages, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has shocked the world. They have conquered massive territories in both countries – equal to the size of the United Kingdom – and promise to create a new Muslim caliphate under the strict dictates of Sharia law. In ISIS: inside the Army of terror, American journalist Michael Weiss and Syrian analyst Hassan Hassan explain how these violent extremists evolved from a nearly defeated Iraqi insurgent group into a jihadi army of international volunteers who, with sickly produced murder ideas, are spreading violence and mayhem across the Middle East. Beginning with the early days of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the founder of ISIS’s first incarnation as “al-Qaeda in Iraq”, Weiss and Hassan explain who the key players are – from their elusive leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to the former Saddam Baathists in their ranks – where they come from, how they have attracted both local and global support, and how they operate – from their social media strategy to illicit oil revenues. ....