ABSTRACT
This final section will summarize the main features of ISIS’ conception of the juridical phenomenon, both in respect to the Islamic and to the Western legal traditions. In particular, ISIS professes a theoretical vision characterized by an extreme radicality, which had never been theorized by other Islamic groups of the present and of the past. This is mainly due to the fact that, contrarily to the historical caliphates and sultanates of the Islamic history, ISIS’ short-lived experience was grounded only in a limited territory, preventing the movement from facing the major challenges of an evolving scenario and deriving from governing a vast empire. Moreover, notwithstanding its allegedly “pure” form of Islam, ISIS lives in a state of symbiosis with the Western world, which represents a necessary counterpart for its antagonist legal and political narrative.
