Isis: Ideology, Symbolics, and Counter Narratives

by Masood Ashraf Raja

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. As Raja asserts, it is this nexus of specifically retrieved Islamic history and the current global economic system that creates the kind of social identity ideally suited for ISIS. The combination...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367662000
• ISBN13: 9780367662004
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 150 Pages