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ISBN-13: 978-0-226-62353-5 (cloth)

ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73756-0 (paper)

ISBN-13: 978-0-226-62367-2 (e-book)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226623672.001.0001

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Tugendhaft, Aaron, author.

Title: The idols of ISIS : from Assyria to the internet / Aaron Tugendhaft.

Description: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020007574 | ISBN 9780226623535 (cloth) | ISBN 9780226737560 (paperback) | ISBN 9780226623672 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Matḥaf al-Mawṣil. | IS (Organization) | Iconoclasm—Middle East. | Cultural property—Destruction and pillage—Middle East. | Idols and images—Middle East. | Motion pictures in propaganda. | Mass media and propaganda. | Islamic fundamentalism—Middle East.

Classification: LCC N9103 .T84 2020 | DDC 700/.4820218—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020007574

This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper).