Apolitical Interpretation of Islam: Said Nursi's Faith-Based Activism in Comparison with Political Islamism and Sufism

Kuru, Zeynep Akbulut; Kuru, Ahmet T.

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“…The notion of multiple interpretations of Islam, filtered and read according to the cultural frames of different societies and personal frames of individual teachers who form different schools of theology, are well documented (Donnan and Stoke, 2002; Kuru and Kuru, 2008; Kabha and Erlich, 2006). While the evaluation and authentication of these numerous readings is beyond the scope of this article, it is sufficient to argue that IS’s reading and interpretation of text is also just that – interpretation.…”

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Islamic State’s quest for legitimacy: An analysis of IS media frames in Dabiq magazine

Ubayasiri

2019

Media, War & Conflict

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This article focuses on the media frames of legitimization presented by the Islamist militant group the Islamic State (IS) in their English-language magazine Dabiq to justify their occupation and expansion in Iraq and Syria between June 2014 and July 2017. It argues that, similar to any other militant group, IS faced challenges in establishing, sustaining and projecting legitimacy of both the organization and its militant actions. Focusing on IS narrative frames of legitimacy in Dabiq, this article looks at how the group constructed frame hierarchies that built upon widely accepted higher-order meta-frames of Islamic belief and Westphalian devolution of state power, to lever support for lower-order frames that are of strategic advantage to IS. The author agues such narratives of legitimacy were vital in IS’s attempt to undermine the authority of the sovereign states they occupied, and were necessary to challenge the monopoly of state violence in order to legitimize its own use of strategic violence both inside the self-proclaimed caliphate and in its expansion.

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Islamic State’s quest for legitimacy: An analysis of IS media frames in Dabiq magazine

Ubayasiri

2019

Media, War & Conflict

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“…Proponents of Islamism aspire to capture political influence to dogmatically enforce their faith on their subjects. They abhor socio-political Westernization and believe in the adequacy of Islam as a model for a sound socio-political system (Kuru & Kuru, 2008). Islamism is inspired by the Quranic phrase which holds that "anyone who is not governed by what Allah has revealed is among the transgressors" (Forest, 2012, p. 76).…”

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“Small Fires Causing Large Fires”: The rise of Boko Haram in Northeastern Nigeria and its Transnational Posture in the Lake Chad Basin

Adela

2021

JICW

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The Islamist group, Jama’atul Alhul Sunnah Lidda’wati wal Jihad, translated as “people committed to the propagation of the Prophet’s teachings and jihad”, is commonly known as Boko Haram, which means “Western education is forbidden.” It originated in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno in 2002, but its violence extends into neighboring Cameroon, Chad, and Niger in the Lake Chad Basin. This article provides an overview of the factors that led to the emergence of Boko Haram, its resort to violence, and rapid expansion in the Lake Chad Basin. The article argues that the Boko Haram insurgency is the result of the combination of overlapping and self-complementing factors. The similarity of these factors across Nigeria’s neighboring countries in the Lake Chad Basin has led to the rapid escalation of Boko Haram’s conflict.

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“…In Nursi's renewalism, the ideal way of renewing the religion was not through the state apparatus but through reading, learning, and disseminating the message of the Risale‐i Nur . Therefore, as he gradually distanced himself from daily politics, he substituted direct political involvement with an apolitical one (Kuru & Kuru, 2008). Nursi, however, did not emerge in a vacuum.…”

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“…3 3 The discussion here is in line with the “agent‐structure debate” in International Relations theory. A different version is available in Kuru and Kuru (2008). …”

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Said Nursi and the Nur Movement in Turkey: An Atomistic Approach

Sahin

2011

Digest Mid East Studies

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Apolitical Interpretation of Islam: Said Nursi's Faith-Based Activism in Comparison with Political Islamism and Sufism

Cited by 43 publications

References 10 publications

Islamic State’s quest for legitimacy: An analysis of IS media frames in Dabiq magazine

Islamic State’s quest for legitimacy: An analysis of IS media frames in Dabiq magazine

“Small Fires Causing Large Fires”: The rise of Boko Haram in Northeastern Nigeria and its Transnational Posture in the Lake Chad Basin

Said Nursi and the Nur Movement in Turkey: An Atomistic Approach

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