Rüdiger Lohlker

Gerhard Mangott

Karin Leukefeld

Tyma Kraitt

Nikolaus Brauns

Werner Ruf

Hannes Hofbauer

Norman Paech

Johannes Auer

Murat Çakır

Mit Beiträgen von Norman Paech, Tyma Kraitt, Nikolaus Brauns, Rüdiger Lohlker, Gerhard Mangott, Johannes Auer, Werner Ruf, Karin Leukefeld und Hannes Hofbauer. Als im Frühjahr 2011 die Ausläufer des sogenannten "Arabischen Frühlings" Syrien erreichten, war die Katastrophe, die sich daraus entwickelte, nicht absehbar. Heute steht der ganze Nahe Osten in Flammen. Syrien existiert als funktionierendes Staatsgebilde nicht mehr. Religiöse Fundamentalisten und marodierende Banden beherrschen weite Teile der Region, Kämpfe für ein Kalifat und einen Kurdenstaat haben die von den Kolonialmächten gezogenen staatlichen Grenzen gesprengt. Politische Unzufriedenheit im Inneren wurde von außen befeuert. Ein jahrelanger Bürgerkrieg, der die ganze Region verheert, droht zu einem Weltkrieg zu werden. Mit der Floskel vom "Kampf gegen den Terrorismus", dem jeder Beteiligte seine eigene Definition zugrunde legt, wird eine mittlerweile fast unüberschaubare Anzahl von Interventionen gerechtfertigt. Am syrischen Schlachtfeld sind neben lokalen Akteuren Einheiten der USA, Saudi-Arabiens, Katars, des Irans, der libanesischen Hizbollah, der Türkei, Großbritanniens, Frankreichs, Deutschlands und Russlands aktiv. Millionen von Flüchtlingen, denen sich ihrer Lebensgrundlagen beraubte Menschen aus Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nordafrika und der Sahelzone anschließen, sind direkte Folge der nahöstlichen Implosion. Mit ihnen kehren soziale Not und Krieg, die der Westen mitverursachte, in die Zentren Europas ein. Fritz Edlinger hat für das vorliegende Buch eine Expertenrunde aus Historikern, Politologen, Kulturanthropologen und Journalisten versammelt, die die einzelnen Fäden des nahöstlichen Knäuels entwirren und damit die Komplexität des Brandherdes Naher Osten erklären helfen.

Zwischen syrischem Bürgerkrieg und Weltkrieg

Der Nahe Osten brennt

Jihadi online media try to mobilize, recruit, and disseminate the messages of jihadi subcultures. Understanding the mechanisms and structures of the products of these online media is essential for understanding jihadism in general. Original research into visual representations of jihadi media outlets, the subtleties of jihadi videos, the specific ways jihadis use Islamic religious language, into jihadi poetry, and the ways jihadis stage their concepts in videos of kangaroo trials is presented in this volume. Jihadis as part of the imaginary of global media production is another aspect of representations of jihadism described in one of the contributions.

Jihadism, Online Discourses and Representations

Tamara Abu-Hamdeh

Studying Jihadism is an endeavor facing several problems. For many researchers and the reading public it is difficult to accept that Jihadists do have a theology of their own and not some kind of ideology. Understanding that a phenomenon of communication that is done to a large extent in Arabic is not to be understood if research is done communication translated into or written in English. Saying it is al out there in the Internet without understanding Internet communication will help to understand terrorist phenomena like Jihadism. Ignoring that there is Jihadism IS and al-Qa'ida will guarantee that research will not be able to see the broad range of Jihadism. Last but not least, research not interested in the technologies, practices, etc., Jihadists use to commit terrorist attacks, cannot claim to study Jihadism. The contributions in this book provide knowledge in all these fields: based on Arabic language sources, theological aspects, Internet communication, groups usually ignored, the role of infographics, technical aspects, and covert and intelligence actions.

Rethinking a Well-Known Phenomenon

Jihadism Revisited

Richard Potz

Kurt Appel

Jakob Helmut Deibl

Isabella Guanzini

Sieglinde Rosenberger

Christian Danz

Sigrid Müller

Rudolf Langthaler

Lukas Pokorny

Hans Gerald Hödl

Hans Schelkshorn

The term “Crisis of Representation” rose to fame through Michel Foucault. The crisis, in the context of this issue, has not only a political and economic dimension, but a cultural, aesthetic and religious one as well. Thus, a serious inquiry into this complex and multidimensional phenomenon requires an interdisciplinary approach. The issue targets the phenomena at hand through 15 contributions – all with unique and innovative approaches to the topic. One common aim that holds the issue together is the analysis of the nature of the crisis, which helps to find suitable theoretical frameworks. On the other hand, the term itself functions as a tool that enables the analysis of specific societal developments. Contributing authors brought with them expertise from their respective fields including philosophy, political sciences, theology, Islamic studies and religious studies. This allowed for a cross-disciplinary approach on the phenomenon with special foci on politics, religions, societies and finance, as well as theoretical developments on current philosophical and post-colonial discourses.

The Crisis of Representation

The articles of the sixth issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society debate war morals and religion from a longterm historical perspective. The issue brings together researchers from various sciences – history, theology, literary studies, philosophy, and sociology – in order to present recent insights into theories and experiences of war with special emphasis on religion. By focusing on the commitment of combatants and commitments to enhance peace, the contributors provide new insights from a fresh and still unusual perspective. They will spur further discussion of moral commitment in war ethics, the role of religion in war, and of the prospect of peace ethics. Religion played a major role in the life of combatants and non-combatants in WWI, the “seminal catastrophe” (George Kennan) of the 20th century. Religion remains a multi-faceted and steady aspect of warfare that, in some respects, serves as a peace-enhancing worldview.

Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society (J-RaT) Vol. 4, Issue 1

Moralities of Warfare and Religion

The contributions of this volume aim at a new, evidence based approach to Jihadism studies. What is the structure of Jihadi online communication and the dissemination of operational material online? Which errors were made by conventional Jihadism research? Which programs, apps, etc. use Jihadis to further their online communication? Next to these questions the contributors discuss the evident inability to understand basic mathematical principles in conventional Jihadism research and consider a very important video as a case study of Jihadi online communication, stressing the linguistic and theological shortcomings of conventional research. The volume is based on the understanding of theological elements as a vital part of Jihadi communication.

How Jihadis Operate Online

World Wide Warriors

Rüdiger Lohlker

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