In this paper, four elements of statehood will be used to assess the Islamic State’s (IS’s) June 2014 claim of sovereignty, thereby raising important questions over its classification as a “non” state armed actor. As such, it seeks to contribute to a small, but growing, literature which attempts to look beyond IS’s virulent bellicosity and to consider the political institutions it established on their own terms—not as simply an extension of its prodigious messianic and eschatological diatribe or as an interstitial response to the failures of the Asad and Maliki regimes. In other words, rather than adding to the voluminous literature on the extent to which IS might be regarded an Islamic State, this paper considers to what degree it might have constituted an Islamic State.

在本文中，将使用国家地位的四个要素来评估伊斯兰国（IS）2014年6月对主权的主张，从而就其归类为“非”国家武装行为者提出了重要问题。因此，它试图为规模较小但正在增长的文学做出贡献，这些文学试图超越IS的强硬好战性，并考虑以其自己的方式建立的政治体制，而不仅仅是其巨大的弥赛亚和末世论的泛滥之举的延伸。或作为对阿萨德（Asad）和马利基（Maliki）政权失败的插页式回应。换句话说，而不是添加到大量文献上的程度IS可能会被视为一个伊斯兰关于国家，本文考虑了它在多大程度上可以构成一个伊斯兰国家。