ABSTRACT
This book deals with the different and under-researched case studies, media strategies, sites, and types of propaganda content distributed by ISIS. The discussion is situated within the concept of propaganda and the manner in which the notion of jihad is utilized by ISIS that falsely brands itself as the alleged protector of Islam and Sunni Muslims. Ironically, ISIS directly and indirectly caused great infrastructural damage in its previously held Sunni-dominated areas, such as Mosul, and was responsible for the killing and disappearance of thousands of Sunnis in its attempts to impose its extremist ideology on the population. To create its false and self-proclaimed state, ISIS followed standardized nation-state building practices, and centralized media productions helped in this process. Yet, this group has never been a real state as it has remained, for most of its existence, virtual in an imagined concept.
