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With #ISIS's territorial control finally collapsing, question we need to ask: what kind of #caliphate was ISIS? Answer needs to be 3-fold +
+ Briefly:
1) How #Wahhabism relates to "real" caliphates
2) Demystifying historical caliphates
3) How #ISIS deviates from real caliphates+
+ ISIS scholars are right to trace group's ideology to Wahhabism, but no real connection between Wahhabism & historical caliphates, except +
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