Words are weapons: inside ISIS's rhetoric of terror

242p index ISBN 9780300223224 cloth, $30.00; ISBN 9780300231519 ebook, contact publisher for price Words Are Weapons (translated from the French by Dorna Khazeni) is an important book for students and scholars, and for citizens and public officials.Salazar (Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa) gives sc...

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Published in:	Choice Vol. 55; no. 6; p. 716
Main Author:	Strong, R A
Format:	Book Review
Language:	English
Published:	Middletown American Library Association dba CHOICE 01-02-2018
Subjects:	Khazeni, Dorna Nonfiction Salazar, Philippe-Joseph Terrorism Weapons South Africa
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Summary:	242p index ISBN 9780300223224 cloth, $30.00; ISBN 9780300231519 ebook, contact publisher for price Words Are Weapons (translated from the French by Dorna Khazeni) is an important book for students and scholars, and for citizens and public officials.Salazar (Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa) gives scrupulously careful attention to the way ISIS leaders use language to command attention, inspire followers, connect to deep roots in jihadist rhetoric, and carry out an ambitious political agenda.[...]they often have special meaning if read in conjunction with the appropriate passages from the Koran or in the context of the complicated cultural history of interactions between the West and the Muslim world.
ISSN:	0009-4978 1943-5975