Entrepreneurs of Identity - The Islamic States Symbolic Repertoire

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.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Christoph Gunther, Christoph Günther, Gunther Christoph
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781800732667
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-266-7
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Integration and Conflict Studies; Integration and Conflict Studi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; RELIGION / Fundamentalism, RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, Middle East, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Religious and theocratic ideologies, Religious & theocratic ideologies