Essays about: "takfiri"

Found 2 essays containing the word takfiri.

  1. 1. How does othering in Abu Bakr Naji’s The Management of Savagery and Anders Breivik’s 2083 reveal what the two authors perceive as the main external threats to their own groups?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : James Graeme Miles Whitehead; [2020]
    Keywords : Othering; others; terrorism; takfiri; far right; Abu Bakr Naji; Anders Breivik; Al Qaeda; ISIS; Cultural Marxists; jihad;

    Abstract : Othering is central in the rhetoric of both Abu Bakr Naji and Anders Breivik throughout their works. Both authors use it as a device to drive a psychological wedge between the groups of ‘us’ and ‘them’. READ MORE

  3. 2. Excommunication, Apostasy, and the Islamic State : The practice of Takfir in the Islamic State, an analysis of the propaganda magazine Dabiq.

    University essay from Jönköping University/HLK, Globala studier

    Author : Jesper Bjelke; Björn Edvard Lervik; [2020]
    Keywords : apostasy; takfir; excommunication; the islamic state; dabiq;

    Abstract : The Islamic State (IS) infamously carried out brutal acts of terrorism against the west. These acts of terrorism in Europe and the USA does, however, not make up most of the violence instigated by the Islamic State. This majority of violence took place in Iraq and Syria, where the Islamic State conquered large territories. READ MORE