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SUMMARY:Lunchbox Lecture: Martyrdom Mythologies: How IS gives Meaning to D
 eath
DTSTART:20170620T101500Z
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DESCRIPTION:Gastvortrag in englischer Sprache von Pieter Nanninga (Groning
 en)\n\nThe Islamic State (IS) has lost tens of thousands of fighters in ba
 ttles and through airstrikes over the last few years. Besides\, hundreds o
 f fighters have killed themselves by carrying out suicide attacks\, around
  1100 of which were performed in 2016 alone. IS gives meaning to these dea
 ths through the concept of martyrdom\, framing the killed fighters and sui
 cide bombers as role models who have sacrificed themselves ‘in the way o
 f God’ and thus gained the ‘ultimate triumph.’ In this talk\, I will
  examine how IS propagandises its ‘martyrs’ by exploring a number of m
 artyr biographies published in its magazines. I will demonstrate that IS a
 ppropriates early-Islamic genres and themes to construct these biographies
 \, but meanwhile adapts them to its own (thoroughly modern) purposes. As a
  result\, the ‘martyrs’ are presented as genuinely Islamic role models
 \, who nevertheless easily connect with the modern\, globalised and indivi
 dualised lives of IS’s target audience.\n
LOCATION:CERES-Palais\, Raum "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/de/events/lunchbox-lecture-pieter-nanninga/
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