Isis: Ideology, Symbolics, and Counter Narratives

ISBN-13: 9781138486188 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 150 str.

Masood Ashraf Raja

Opis

Relying on a thorough understanding of the role of ideology, discourse, and framing, this volume discusses ISIS as an Islamist ideological organization, and examines its philosophical scaffolding within the material conditions produced by neoliberal capital.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Historical Overview of the Rise of ISIS  2. The Framing of ISIS Self Narrative: Ideology, Farming, and Symbolics  3. The ISIS Recruitment: Jihad and the Mujahid  4. The Management of Savagery: A Critical Reading  5. The Neoliberal Capital, the US Counter-Policies and their Ramifications  Conclusion

O autorze

Masood Ashraf Raja specializes in postcolonial studies, globalization theory, and the study of Islamic cultures and politics. Author of The Religious Right and the Talibanization of America (2016) and Constructing Pakistan　(2010), Masood is currently working on his next book, titled Democratic Criticism: Poetics of Incitement and the Muslim Sacred.