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The Way of the Strangers
Encounters with the Islamic State
Author: Graeme Wood
Publisher: Allen Lane / Penguin Books
Pages: 317
Special Indian price: Rs 699
Two years ago, Graeme Wood wrote an extended essay in The Atlantic titled: “What ISIS Really Wants”. Here, he made the assertion that the “Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic.” In this book, Wood has carried forward his investigation into the sources of the ideology and conduct of the Islamic State (IS).
Since he is unable to meet the main IS protagonists in Iraq and Syria, he has achieved the next best: he has interviewed the ideological supporters of
