Entrepreneurs of Identity

The Islamic State's Symbolic Repertoire
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-80073-266-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 479 g

Reihe: Integration and Conflict Studies

Describing the Islamic State’s ideologues as ‘entrepreneurs of identity’, this book explores how the group defined categories of social identity and used these categories as tools of communicative and cognitive structuring. Based on a wide dossier of original texts, speeches, images, and videos, the book examines how these ideologues have built a symbolic repertoire around the black flag as well as ideas and social practices such as the dictum to command good and forbid wrong, the supervision of public behaviour, and the oath of allegiance to the Caliph.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Günther, Christoph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöse Intoleranz, Verfolgung, Religionskonflikte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Der Islam und die Moderne (Westliche) Welt
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamismus, Fundamentalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Notes on Translations and Transliteration

Introduction

Chapter 1. Entrepreneurs of Identity and the Sectarianization of Iraq and Syria

Chapter 2. The Caliphate

Chapter 3. Iconography and Iconoclasm

Conclusion

Glossary of Frequently Used Arabic terms

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Günther, Christoph
Christoph Günther is the Principal Investigator of the junior research group Jihadism on the Internet: Images and Videos, their Dissemination and Appropriation in the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Mainz. His recent publications include the co-edited Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements: Meanings, Aesthetics, Appropriations (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).