Rumiyah (magazine)

Rumiyah

Rumiyah (Issue 1)
Categories	Online magazine for propaganda
Frequency	less than a month
Founder	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Year founded	2016
First issue	September 6, 2016 (2016-09-06)
Country	Syria (under Islamic State)
Based in	Al-Raqqah
Language	Arabic, English, German, French, Indonesian, Turkish

Rumiyah (Classical Arabic for Rome) a web-distributed periodical magazine released by Islamic State's Al-Hayat Media Center. It emerged after the death of Abu Mohammad al-Adnani (spokesman of the Islamic State) who is featured in the magazine.^[1] The online magazine is published in several different languages, including English, French, German, Russian, Indonesian and Uyghur. Some experts speculated that it is set to replace other, better known magazine Dabiq (as Turkey-backed rebels push towards ISIL-held Syrian town of the same name), but others considered it unlikely. ^[2]

Rumiyah is a reference to an Islamic prophecy that foretells the downfall of Rome following the collapse of Constantinople which fell in the Muslim conquest of 1453 and calls for the targeting and killing kafir (infidels).^[3]

The magazine features Islamic State foreign fighters asking Muslims to conduct lone wolf styled attacks.^[4][5] In October 2016, Islamic State released second edition of the magazine in which it justified attacks against non-Muslims (infidels). The magazine is second most famous magazine of the caliphate after Dabiq which was first released in mid 2014.

See also

• Dabiq (magazine)
• Dar al-Islam (magazine)
• Konstantiniyye (magazine)

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