ISBN:
9781925693010
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (247 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.48697095691
Keywords:
IS (Organization)
;
Widows
;
Islamic fundamentalism
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE -- - PART I - -- NOUR -- ASMA -- LINA -- EMMA -- NOUR -- ASMA -- RAHMA AND GHOUFRAN -- NOUR -- LINA -- EMMA/DUNYA -- EMMA/DUNYA -- SABIRA -- - PART II - -- SHARMEENA, KADIZA, AMIRA, AND SHAMIMA -- - PART III - -- ASMA -- NOUR -- RAHMA AND GHOUFRAN -- EMMA/DUNYA -- LINA -- SHARMEENA, KADIZA, AMIRA, AND SHAMIMA -- SABIRA -- - PART IV - -- ASMA, AWS, AND DUA -- EMMA/DUNYA -- LINA -- EMMA/DUNYA -- SHARMEENA, KADIZA, AMIRA, AND SHAMIMA -- SHARMEENA, KADIZA, AMIRA, AND SHAMIMA -- RAHMA AND GHOUFRAN -- NOUR -- RAHMA AND GHOUFRAN -- LINA -- - PART V - -- ASMA, AWS, AND DUA -- LINA -- EMMA/DUNYA -- SHARMEENA, KADIZA, AMIRA, AND SHAMIMA -- RAHMA AND GHOUFRAN -- BETHNAL GREEN -- KADIZA -- SABIRA -- EMMA/DUNYA -- NOUR -- EPILOGUE -- NOTE TO READERS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
Abstract:
Among the many books trying to understand the terrifying rise of ISIS, none has given voice to the women in the organization; but women were essential to the establishment of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s caliphate. Responding to promises of female empowerment and social justice, and calls to aid the plight of fellow Muslims in Syria, thousands of women emigrated from the United States and Europe, Russia and Central Asia, from across North Africa and the rest of the Middle East to join the Islamic State. These were the educated daughters of diplomats, trainee doctors, teenagers with straight-A averages, as well as working-class drifters and desolate housewives, and they joined forces to set up makeshift clinics and schools for the Islamic homeland they’d envisioned. Guest House for Young Widows charts the different ways women were recruited, inspired, or compelled to join the militants. Emma from Hamburg, Sharmeena and three high school friends from London, and Nour, a religious dropout from Tunis: All found rebellion or community in political Islam and fell prey to sophisticated propaganda that promised them a cosmopolitan adventure and a chance to forge an ideal Islamic community in which they could live devoutly without fear of stigma or repression.
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