“Among the Believers Are Men”

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" “Among the Believers Are Men” "
Pieter Nanninga

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1079251
Doc. No	:	LA122880
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685276-12341493‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Pieter Nanninga
Title & Author	:	“Among the Believers Are Men” [Article]\ Pieter Nanninga
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Numen
Date	:	2018
Volume/ Issue Number	:	65/2-3
Page No	:	165–184
Abstract	:	This article examines how the Islamic State has framed its extraordinary losses of manpower by analyzing the role of early-Islamic traditions in the martyr biographies included in its magazines Dabiq and Rumiyah. After exploring how is has composed these biographies, by focusing on their narrative structure and central themes, the article demonstrates that early-Islamic traditions about jihad and martyrdom form an important subtext of these articles. They contain many implicit references to stories about Muḥammad and his companions, by means of which is attempts to define and authorize the status of its killed operatives as martyrs and therefore as potentially powerful witnesses of its cause. Yet, the article subsequently argues, the martyrs as portrayed in the magazines are also thoroughly modern characters reflecting contemporary processes such as globalization, individualization, and deculturation. is thus invests classical Islamic traditions with new meanings by employing them in new contexts. Hence, the article concludes that understanding the dynamic role of Islamic scriptures in is’s discourse is crucial if we are to grasp the composition and appeal of is’s biographies and therefore also how is frames its losses and motivates actions of self-sacrifice among its operatives and supporters.
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Dabiq – Islam – Islamic State
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	jihadism
Descriptor	:	martyrologies
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Religion in Antiquity
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Rumiyah
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685276-12341493‬