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Historical Narratives in Islamic State Propaganda / AYMENN AL-TAMIMI

Swansea University Author: AYMENN AL-TAMIMI

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DOI (Published version): 10.23889/SUthesis.66298

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Drawing on a large set of official Arabic-language publications of the Islamic State, this thesis provides an in-depth examination of historical narratives in Islamic State propaganda that spans the period 2014-October 2019 (i.e. the tenure of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as the group’s first caliph). The t...

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Published: Swansea, Wales, UK 2024
Institution: Swansea University
Degree level: Doctoral
Degree name: Ph.D
Supervisor: Reed, Alastair ; Macdonald, Stuart ; Glazzard, Andrew
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description Drawing on a large set of official Arabic-language publications of the Islamic State, this thesis provides an in-depth examination of historical narratives in Islamic State propaganda that spans the period 2014-October 2019 (i.e. the tenure of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as the group’s first caliph). The thesis argues that a set of themes emerge from the historical narratives deployed: namely, the in-group/out-group and crisis/solution dichotomies, steadfastness, ineligible in-group critique and historical legitimacy. These themes form the building blocks of a simple system of meaning for the group’s members and supporters, and without historical narratives these themes would make little sense. The themes are repeated seemingly ad nauseam, likely as part of a strategy to ensure that the group is staying ‘on message,’ and they are dovetailed by a theory of history that is ‘strongly’ and ‘weakly’ deterministic in nature, reinforcing the system of meaning. Moreover, this thesis finds that in constructing historical narratives, the group makes use of source materials that would generally be considered ‘authentic’ and ‘reliable’ in the realm of culture in which the group operates.
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