156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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.
