A paper Caliphate: understanding the Islamic State through its documents

Autores/as

  • Diogo Bercito Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2446-5240.malala.2017.131679

Palabras clave:

Islamic State, Shari'a, Caliphate, Iraq, Syria

Resumen

The Islamic State is a terror organization that distinguishes itself from other similar groups by the establishment of a bureaucratic structure that projects the image of a state. This essay investigates documents produced in Iraq under the banner of the caliphate. These documents reveal an administration that enforces itself over a large territory. Their analysis points to a particular view of government presented as Islamic, which this investigation compares with precedents set throughout Islamic history, while traces of the modern conception of a state are found to be salient. 

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Biografía del autor/a

  • Diogo Bercito, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
    Diogo Bercito is a reporter with Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo. He has been based in Jerusalem, Beirut and Cairo. This paper was written in 2015 during his master’s degree in Contemporary Arabic and Islamic Studies at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, tutored by Maribel Fierro.

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Publicado

2017-04-30

Cómo citar

Bercito, D. (2017). A paper Caliphate: understanding the Islamic State through its documents. Malala, Revista Internacional De Estudos Sobre O Oriente Médio E Mundo Muçulmano, 5(7), 68-88. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2446-5240.malala.2017.131679