On the pursuit of Islamic Statehood: How the Salafi-Jihadist ideological goal of Islamic statehood results in practical on-the-ground governance. Ghent University
In 2014, the Islamic State group established a Caliphate in Syria and Iraq. Many observers hailed this attempt at state-building as a new era of Jihad, focussed on local bureaucratic control, and thus radically different from the global terrorism of Al-Qaida. However, the vision to establish an Islamic state is in fact deeply engrained in Salafi-Jihadist ideology, and there have been multiple, though under-researched, attempts to establish ...