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SUMMARY:Lunchbox Lecture: Martyrdom Mythologies: How IS gives Meaning to d
 eath
DTSTART:20170620T101500Z
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DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture by Pieter Nanninga (Groningen)\n\nThe Islamic St
 ate (IS) has lost tens of thousands of fighters in battles and through air
 strikes over the last few years. Besides\, hundreds of fighters have kille
 d themselves by carrying out suicide attacks\, around 1100 of which were p
 erformed in 2016 alone. IS gives meaning to these deaths through the conce
 pt of martyrdom\, framing the killed fighters and suicide bombers as role 
 models who have sacrificed themselves ‘in the way of God’ and thus gai
 ned the ‘ultimate triumph.’ In this talk\, I will examine how IS propa
 gandises its ‘martyrs’ by exploring a number of martyr biographies pub
 lished in its magazines. I will demonstrate that IS appropriates early-Isl
 amic genres and themes to construct these biographies\, but meanwhile adap
 ts them to its own (thoroughly modern) purposes. As a result\, the ‘mart
 yrs’ are presented as genuinely Islamic role models\, who nevertheless e
 asily connect with the modern\, globalised and individualised lives of IS
 ’s target audience.\n
LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/lunchbox-lecture-pieter-nanninga/
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