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Institutional development · Research, innovation and assessment · Iraq

University of Kufa department head publishes study on intellectual roots of ISIS

Professor Asaad Kadhim Shabib, head of the University of Kufa's Department of Future and Development Studies, has published a study on ISIS in an encyclopedia issued by a committee of the Alawi Holy Shrine.

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Why it matters: The University of Kufa's Department of Future and Development Studies sees its head's study on the intellectual origins of ISIS published in a documentary encyclopedia.

The University of Kufa reported that Professor Asaad Kadhim Shabib, head of its Department of Future and Development Studies, has published a study on the intellectual origins of the ISIS organisation.

According to the university, the study appears in the Grand Documentary Encyclopedia of the Fatwa of Defence of the Iraq of Sanctities.

The university said the encyclopedia is issued by the Guidance and Mobilisation Committee for the Defence of the Iraq of Sanctities at the Alawi Holy Shrine (al-Atabah al-Alawiyyah al-Muqaddasah).

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Scott James, Research and Innovation Editor

The head of the University of Kufa's Department of Future and Development Studies now has a study on the intellectual origins of ISIS published in an encyclopedia issued by a committee of the Alawi Holy Shrine.

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