"Remaining and expanding": En kritisk diskursanalys om kalifatets territoriella entitet och föreställda gemenskap
2021 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (professional degree), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesisAlternative title
“Remaining and Expanding” : A Critical Discourse Analysis about the Caliphates Territorial Entity and Imagined Community (English)
Abstract [en]
The purpose of this essay is to use critical discourse analysis to answer the essay's three questions, (1) How does the Islamic State express the territoriality and identity of the Caliphate in Dabiq? (2) How does the idea of the Caliphate relate to Benedict Anderson's “Imagined Community” and finally (3 ) How can the territoriality of the caliphate be analyzed on the basis of Sack's definition of the term?To investigate this, the Islamic State's official journal, Dabiq, has been analyzed on the basis of four selected categories, khilafah, hijrah, ummah and bay’ah. Robert Sacks definition of a territory and Benedict Anderson's theory of the imagined community are two theories applied to the essay thesis in order to be theory tested and contribute to a deeper understanding. Based on this, it could be stated that the territorial and identity aspects of the caliphate are expressed through the four categories analyzed. It can also be stated that both an imagined community and a territorial aspect emerged in the analysis. It is thus neither an imagined community nor a territorial aspect but both parts.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2021.
Keywords [en]
Dabiq, The Islamic state, Caliphate, Salafi- Jihadism, Hijrah, Bay’ah, Ummah, Critical discourse analysis, territoriality
National Category
Religious Studies
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-82742OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-82742DiVA, id: diva2:1526530
Subject / course
Religious Studies and Theology
Educational program
Secondary Education Programme: Upper Secondary Education Programme: Religion (300 ECTS credits)
Supervisors
Examiners
2021-03-032021-02-082021-03-03Bibliographically approved