Islam and Violence in the Modern Era

Milton‐Edwards, Beverley

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“…Its religious reference points may, therefore, be thought of as principally motivational—playing, in Arun Kundnani's words, “an enabling role in cohering a group”—with the overall aim of achieving a military advantage (2014, 65). The intellectual heritage here is perhaps less in (even supposedly aberrant) variegations of contemporary Islamic thought, and more in much older utopian discourses of the subaltern—a kind of “Muslim-based Fanonist perspective” as Beverly Milton-Edwards puts it (2006, 102).…”

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Islam and the Islamic State's Magazine,Dabiq

Jacoby

2018

Politics and Religion

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Since the emergence of the Islamic State, considerable debate has arisen over the relationship (or lack of therein) between its ideological discourse and broader Islamic exegeses and learning. This paper aims to connect these wider discussions to its self-defined ideological standpoint as set out in its magazine,Dabiq. All 15 of these, published between June 2014 and July 2016, amounting to more than 900 pages, are examined to assess their authors’ (1) analysis of the Qur'an (2) use of classical scholarship, and (3) engagement with contemporary readings of Islam.

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Islam and the Islamic State's Magazine,Dabiq

Jacoby

2018

Politics and Religion

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“…Third, political Islam is inherently violent (Ayoob 2008: 1). This popular debate led to the construction of the holy terror thesis with its central fascination with Islam as its primary locus, reflecting a political as well as a cultural antipathy toward Islam itself (Milton-Edwards 2006: 15).…”

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“…Western portrayal of transnational Islam, hence, appears as a reductionist representation of the same, as nothing more than a movement for terrorism (Milton-Edwards 2006: 10). Such portrayals are oblivious of the sociopolitical and psychological variables that factor deeply in the making of diverse strands of terrorism (Jackson 2007: 246).…”

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Untying the Mystique of an Islamic Threat: Western Imageries, the Clash of Civilizations, and a Search for Ontological Security

Kumar

2018

Jadavpur Journal of International Relations

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This article begins by arguing that a motivation to tarnish Islam as a religion has framed the foundations of Western imagery of the Muslim world. It consists of a negative cultural portrait that depicts Islam as a threat to the ontological security of the West. Such a representation is centered around an epistemic conviction that Islam and violence are inextricably intertwined with each other because the religion is still sedimented in medieval barbarism and as a civilization, it is yet to graduate out of the syndrome of dogmatic mono-cultural assertiveness and a retrograding sense of conservative obstinacy. In accordance to this, Islam emerges as an enemy of the modernized West that represents liberal cosmopolitanism and multicultural accommodation. Based on this, the article examines as to how such an epistemic conviction gets envisioned in the Islamophobic narratives of Samuel P. Huntington, Bernard Lewis, and their subsequent re-invocations that aim to problematize Islam as the ultimate nemesis of the West.

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“…The proposed root cause of ideology or religiocentrism (Abu-Nimer, 2004;Francis, 2002;Milton-Edwards, 2006;Ray & Doratis, 1971), contend that the behaviors exhibited by CRG members are merely the effect of abnormal religion on normal people, is a partial, imperfect, and at times tautological point of view. Pathologically narcissistic religious leaders have been shown to both persuade and compel others to adopt their pronounced rules (Gregg, 2003;Meloy, 1988;Popovski, Reichberg, & Turner, 2009)-often by identifying themselves as an agent of God.…”

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The interplay between antisocial and obsessive‐compulsive personality characteristics in cult‐like religious groups: A psychodynamic decoding of the DSM‐5

Rahmani

Hemmati

Cohen

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Appl Psychoanal Studies

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The antisocial and violent behaviors of cult‐like religious groups (CRGs) and the maladaptive social consequences of their activities suggest clinical or character pathology and invite diagnostic and dynamic formulations of their members' personalities. The current study utilized secondary reports in the commercial media about CRG members, combined with the lived experience method of two of the authors. The resulting core characteristics of CRG members were then classified following the alternative DSM‐5 alternative model for personality disorders. The overall clinical picture is then discussed in terms of the shared psychodynamic sources that undergird the behaviors of the antisocial‐obsessive‐compulsive personality disorders. By tracing the personality characteristics into their unconscious sadomasochistic conflicts, these insights shed light on the paradoxical frequent co‐occurrence of antisocial and obsessive‐compulsive characteristics among extremists, in contrast to the patient population at large.

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Islam and Violence in the Modern Era

Cited by 13 publications

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Islam and the Islamic State's Magazine,Dabiq

Islam and the Islamic State's Magazine,Dabiq

Untying the Mystique of an Islamic Threat: Western Imageries, the Clash of Civilizations, and a Search for Ontological Security

The interplay between antisocial and obsessive‐compulsive personality characteristics in cult‐like religious groups: A psychodynamic decoding of the DSM‐5

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