Al-Fatihin: Islamic State's first Malay language newspaper

• Main Authors: Singh, Jasminder, Muhammad Haziq Jani
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Terrorism Studies; Conflict and Stability; Country and Region Studies; Middle East and North Africa (MENA); Southeast Asia and ASEAN
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81449; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40793
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The so-called Islamic State (IS) has just released its first newspaper in the Malay Language, and declared in it a wilayah (province) in the Philippines. The publication of a Malay-language IS newspaper would have implications not only on Malay-speaking IS fighters in Iraq and Syria but also the Mal...