Entrepreneurs of Identity

The Islamic State’s Symbolic Repertoire

Christoph Günther (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

220 Seiten

2022
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-266-7 (ISBN)

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Understanding 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.

Describing the Islamic State’s ideologues as ‘entrepreneurs of identity’, this book explores how the group defined categories of social identity and used them 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.

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).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	21.12.2021
Reihe/Serie	Integration and Conflict Studies
Zusatzinfo	11 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80073-266-X / 180073266X
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-266-7 / 9781800732667
Zustand	Neuware