Abstract
This paper provides the listener with a quite different perspective on the apocalyptic visions of ISIS than usual. “A Feeble Folk to whom no Concern is Accorded” (this enigmatic title is a borrowed quotation from an apocalyptic prophecy recorded by sheikh Nuʽaym ibn Hammad al-Marwazi in his famous Kitāb al-Fitan / the Book of Apocalyptic Tribulations) discusses, above all, how the activities of ISIS are placed into an apocalyptic context by their Muslim opponents. This paper elaborates pivotal Sunni patterns as well as particular examples of such a fighting against the ISIS propaganda “in eschatological terms.”
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ISIS, Millennialism Extremism
Digital Media
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