How ISIS Describes its Government Structure

The Khalifah defends the homeland, fortifies the fronts,

prepares the armies, implements the hudud (divine
Khalifah ordinances), enforces the people’s adherence to Sharia
rulings, and upholds and spreads the religion.

The Shura Council The The committee supports the Khalifah

The Shura in supervising the wilayat, the dawawin,
assists the Khalifah Delegated
Council and the committees and offices.
in completing his duties. Committee

Wilayat in Distant Offices and

Dawawin
Iraq and Syria Wilayat Committees
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Khalifah

The
The Shura
Delegated
Council
Committee

Wilayat in
Distant
Iraq and Dawawin
Wilayat
Syria

Offices and
Committees

Committee for
Office of Administration Office of Public
The Hijrah Affairs of
Research and of Distant and Tribal
Committee: Prisoners and
Studies Wilayat Relations
Shuhada’

This committee receives those This committee is responsible for This office is concerned with It is responsible for overseeing This is a link to connect the
who emigrate to the Islamic following up on Muslim captives, investigating Shar’i issues and and directing affairs of wilayat Islamic State with tribal chiefs
State, and they provide the seeking to rescue them from preparing research. outside of Iraq and Sham. and dignitaries.
various committees and dawawin captivity; it looks after the families of
with what they require. Shuhada’ and cares for their children.
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The
The Shura
Delegated
Council
Committee

Wilayat in
Distant Offices and
Iraq and
Dawawin Syria
Wilayat Committees

Diwan of Diwan of Diwan of Diwan of

Diwan of Zakah Diwan of Public Services
Diwan of Judgment Hisbah Proselytizing and
Mosques Media Security
and Grievances It is a diwan responsible for
This diwan responsible for This diwan is responsible for This diwan is responsible It is the body This diwan is responsible for
A number of judges are supplying water and electricity,
ordering the public to perform preparing and appointing for collecting and responsible for any safeguarding internal public
responsible for clarifying security in the Islamic State, paving and maintaining roads, and
good deeds and preventing them imams and preachers, building distributing the zakah; content released
and enforcing the Shar’i protecting it from anything that supervising and maintaining the
from committing evil deeds, and preparing masajid, and additionally, it is by the Islamic
rulings in matters of blood, public utilities in the Islamic State.
holding them accountable to holding preparatory seminars concerned with meeting State, whether that would disrupt it, and waging
wealth, and family- and war against infiltration and
rulings based on the Shari’ah. and Shar’i courses. the needs of the poor content is audio,
marriage-related issues. against any spy networks.
and destitute. visual, or written.

Diwan of Diwan of Diwan of Diwan of Diwan of

Diwan of Diwan of Fay’
Soldiery Education Health Resources Treasury
Agriculture and Ghana’im
Responsibilities: management of wars, It is responsible for (Rikaz)
This diwan is responsible for This diwan is responsible
guarding the frontlines, planning and propelling the wheel of This diwan is responsible It is a diwan responsible for counting
developing the health sector, for agricultural and animal The entity is responsible
preparing for military raids, dispatching knowledge. It regulates for protecting and and safekeeping the wealth bestowed
preventing and treating resources and maintaining for the exploitation of
divisions, brigades, and battalions, and curriculums and courses as managing the Islamic upon the state, following battles, raids,
sickness and disease, and food security for Islamic oil, gas, and mineral
providing the Khilafah with trained well as locates the required State’s wealth. etc.; the diwan conducts the allocation
provides medical needs. State residents. resources.
personnel for his army. personnel. of shares to those who deserve them.
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BACK The
The Shura
Delegated
Council
Committee

Wilayat in Iraq and Syria

Offices and Distant
Dawawin
Committees Wilayat

Baghdad Anbar Salahaddin Fallujah Diyalah North The South Ninawa Kirkuk Tigris
province Baghdad

The Island Al-Khayr Al-Baraka Raqqa Damascus Aleppo Hama Homs Euphrates
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The
The Shura
Distant Wilayat Council
Delegated
Committee

Wilayat in
Offices and
Iraq and Dawawin
Committees
Syria

Abyan Governate, Sana’a, Hadramaut Shabwah Al Bayda, Sinai Caucasus, Khorasan,

Yemen Yemen Governate, Governate, Yemen Peninsula, Turkey Iran
Yemen Yemen Egypt

Cyrenaica, Tripoli, Fezzan, Algeria West Ibb, Yemen Najd, Hijaz,

Libya Libya Libya Africa “The Green Province” Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia