Essays about: "Islamic State"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 108 essays containing the words Islamic State.

  1. 16. Persian Pixels : An Ethnography of the Iranian Video Game Industry

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för speldesign

    Author : Kamiab Ghorbanpour; [2022]
    Keywords : Computer games; Ethnography; The Islamic Republic of Iran; Persia; Video game industry; Persian; Iranian.;

    Abstract : There are several studies on the video game industry in Iran, and most of them are primarily focused on state-funded organizations which produce politically motivated games to push the geopolitical and domestic goals of the government. However, there is a lot more to the Iranian video game industry, one of which is the dichotomic nature of the private enterprises and their contrast with the mentioned state-funded products. READ MORE

  3. 17. The Islamic State’s Enslavement of the Yazidi Minority : An Inquiry into the Female Devotees’ Responsibility

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Mina Jenabpour; [2022]
    Keywords : international public law; international law; international criminal law; slavery prohibition; yazidi minority; IS; the Islamic State; IS-women; foreign terrorist fighters; individual criminal responsibility; aiding and abetting complicity direct perpetration the Caliphate enslavement forced labour; powers attaching to the right of ownership; Folkrätt; Internationell straffrätt; Slaveriförbudet; Slaveri; Yazidi; IS-kvinnor; Individuellt straffansvar;

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  4. 18. Achieving Security by Suicide - A Way of Ensuring a Forever Jihad?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Iris Hautaniemi Forsberg; [2022]
    Keywords : Terrorism; The Islamic State; Identity; Suicide Attacks; Ontological Security; Narratives; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to analyze how identity and potential ontological insecurity are expressed in the Islamic State’s narrative and how this may explain the use of suicide attacks. This is done by analyzing the language in the Islamic State’s official magazines between 2014 to 2017 through a theoretical lens of ontological security. READ MORE

  5. 19. Analysing Evil : A Comparison of Christian and Islamist Terrorist Acts

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Felix Franzino; [2021]
    Keywords : terrorism; religious terrorism; Christian and Islamist acts of terrorism; Anders Behring Breivik Norway 2011; Paris attacks November 2015; IS;

    Abstract : Although terrorism is an area that has been the subject of much research, systematic searches in databases reveal that a focus on actors and movements that find their motivation in Christian beliefs, is, by and large, lacking. Ever since the 9/11 terrorist attack, Islamist terrorism has been the major focus. READ MORE

  6. 20. Nikāḥ as precondition for paradise? Spiritual corporeality and al-Ghazālī’s theology of marriage in the Kitāb ādāb al-nikāḥ

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

    Author : Mariette Frieda Anita Minnemann; [2021]
    Keywords : al-Ghazali marriage asceticism Medieval theology history of religion Islamic theology Soteriology cosmogony eschatology embodiment Sufism Sufi tasawwuf spiritual corporeality mysticism Ibn Arabi Islamic mysticism jihad body Ihya kitab nikah intercourse sex celibacy embodied resurrection din Medieval Islamic studies religious studies; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : With the 11th century text Kitāb ādāb al-nikāḥ, the “Book on the Proper Conduct of Marriage”, the Islamic thinker al-Ghazālī (1056 –1111/447–504) replies to a contemporaneous debate within Sufi asceticism with a theology of nikāḥ. The text is part of his opus magnum, the “Renaissance of the Knowledge of dīn”, which aims at a renewal of Muslim piety and provides practical guidance to the male audience addressed. READ MORE