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  • ISIS: The Taint of Murji’ism and the Curse of Hypocrisy

    Author(s):
    Mizan: Journal for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations (view group) , Jeffrey Bristol
    Editor(s):
    Michael Pregill
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    Mizan: Journal for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations
    Subject(s):
    Islam, Violence--Religious aspects, Christian ethics, Political theology
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    ISIS, Islamic Thought, Islamic extremism, Islamic ethics, Religion and violence, Moral and political theology
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/t7ev-0j45
    Abstract:
    This paper is an attempt to analyze one facet of ISIS’ discourse in order to understand why the movement chooses the arguments it does and how it uses them to achieve particular goals. One of the most commonly occurring tropes in ISIS propaganda is its critique of its opponents as “Murji’ites.” The Murji’ites were a school of Islamic thought that emerged early on in the history of the Muslim community, and ideas and claims associated with them were critical in debates over Islamic identity and the path to salvation. In the modern era, various movements have reinterpreted the traditional discourse on the Murji’ites in specific ways, and ISIS spokesmen draw on both classical and modern elaborations of an idea of Murji’ism to polemicize against Muslims who resist their claims and fail to support them. Thus, we see that ISIS does not create its rhetoric out of whole cloth, but borrows pieces from Islamic intellectual tradition selectively and engages with older Salafist ideas in the articulation of a new ideology.
    Notes:
    This is a stable archival PDF of an open-access, peer-reviewed journal article originally published at www.mizanproject.org/journal/.
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    Published as:
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    Publisher:
    Mizan Project (www.mizanproject.org/journal/)
    Pub. Date:
    September 2016
    Journal:
    Mizan: Journal for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations
    Volume:
    1
    Issue:
    1
    Page Range:
    129 - 166
    ISSN:
    2472-5919
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    2 years ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

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