https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Origins-of-the-Islamic-State https://booksandideas.net/The-Origins-of-the-Islamic-State 2015-05-21T05:30:00Z text/html en Matthieu Rey International History Syria Iraq <span lang='fr'>Islamism</span> Institut français jihadism <p>Is the Islamic State a state, as it claims to be? Or does it designate a new form of imperial sovereignty? Matthieu Rey traces the history of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, starting with European colonial rule and the two Gulf wars.</p>