TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schneider, Suzanne
TI  - The apocalypse and the end of history: modern jihad and the crisis of liberalism 
SN  - 9781839762413
U1  - 320.557 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Verso
KW  - World politics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Two presents -- A new age of private violence -- The triumph of the individual -- Making the Umma great again -- The democratic foil -- Means without ends -- At history's end -- Conclusion: Two futures
N2  - "Historian Suzanne Schneider examines the politics and ideology of the Islamic State (better known as ISIS). Schneider argues that today's jihad is not the residue from a less enlightened time, nor does it have much in common with its classical or medieval form, but it does bear a striking resemblance to the reactionary political formations and acts of spectacular violence that are upending life in Western democracies"--
ER  -