{"id":3519,"date":"2013-08-02T13:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T20:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/02\/islams-documents\/"},"modified":"2013-08-05T14:54:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T21:54:08","slug":"islams-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/islams-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"data on Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C9sYgqRtZGg\" width=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"150\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"news-single-timedata\">October 27, 2010 10:00 AM Age: 3 yrs<\/p>\n<p class=\"news-single-author\">By: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamestown.org\/articles-by-author\/?no_cache=1&amp;tx_cablanttnewsstaffrelation_pi1%5Bauthor%5D=27\">Stephen Ulph<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"news-single-img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamestown.org\/index.php?eID=tx_cms_showpic&amp;file=uploads%2Fpics%2FTowards_a_Curriculum_Cover.jpg&amp;md5=fc47a3c1b3f3e201992ecd52d3cb95bde8286998&amp;parameters[0]=YTo0OntzOjU6IndpZHRoIjtzOjQ6IjUwMG0iO3M6NjoiaGVpZ2h0IjtzOjM6IjUw&amp;parameters[1]=MCI7czo3OiJib2R5VGFnIjtzOjI0OiI8Ym9keSBiZ0NvbG9yPSIjZmZmZmZmIj4i&amp;parameters[2]=O3M6NDoid3JhcCI7czozNzoiPGEgaHJlZj0iamF2YXNjcmlwdDpjbG9zZSgpOyI%2B&amp;parameters[3]=IHwgPC9hPiI7fQ%3D%3D\" target=\"thePicture\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamestown.org\/typo3temp\/pics\/492c08e01f.jpg\" width=\"152\" height=\"215\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Towards a Curriculum<\/span><\/em><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> <em>for the Teaching of Jihadist Ideology<\/em>  aims to provide an introduction to the intellectual infrastructure of  the jihadist phenomenon and the process of radicalization, and to  furnish materials for a textbook primer to what is still largely an  ideological <em>terra incognita<\/em> for the western reader. It is  designed for the use of academics, security professionals, policy-makers  and the general reader alike.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The work sets out in its introductory chapters to  highlight common errors in the perception of jihadism and of its causes  by looking at the problem from the point of view of the jihadist  sympathizer. It details the ideological infrastructure of the movement  through an examination of the texts \u2013 many of which have yet to be made  available in English. The study argues that the meticulously composed  doctrinal and cultural works form the life-blood and intellectual  infrastructure of the Jihad and in quantity and range amount to an  entire educational program, one that is constructed to reconfigure a  Muslim\u2019s self-image and identity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">It sets out to demonstrate how jihadism is in  essence a religiously construed movement in something more than its  externalities, and illustrates the emphasis the jihadist thinkers place  on the importance of doctrinal propriety, an emphasis that outweighs by  far the attention given to matters of strategy and tactics. The study  argues that it is the strength of the intellectual underpinning  (something which is too often underestimated) that affords the jihadist  movement its resilience by providing it with what amounts to a doctrinal  \u2018safe haven\u2019 that frames and justifies the conflict. Importantly, the  work highlights that the resilience of jihadism stems from its claim to  doctrinal authenticity and pedigree within the Islamic tradition. The  analysis demonstrates how this authenticity derives from the jihad\u2019s  incunabulum within the absolutist, reductionist methodology of the  Salafist tendency, and traces how the development to activism and  Jihadi-Salafism occurred progressively, in step with constant insistence  on its authenticity to the tradition. It also underlines the basic  doctrinal features of jihadism, and illustrates the interpretation given  by the <em>muj?hid?n<\/em> and their sympathisers to current reality, to  the course of history and the salvific nature of the struggle, which  they consider themselves to be waging. It is by understanding jihadists\u2019  points of departure on their own terms like this that light can be shed  on why they behave the way they do, both in the Muslim heartlands and  beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The \u2018Curriculum\u2019 section discusses the teaching of  jihadism to date in academic institutions and outlines the problems  that ensue from current reticence to give the subject the depth of  treatment that it merits. As a template for the Curriculum it takes the  examples of curricula and recommendations circulated by Jihadis  themselves on the Internet, and thus reflects the jihadists\u2019 own  prioritization of materials and authors. In so doing, the study  demonstrates the true \u2018cyberweapon\u2019 role of the web, which is as a<em> publisher and distributor of texts.<\/em> The examination of the jihadi curricula also confirms the strong doctrinal bias, indicating where for the <em>muj?hid?n<\/em>  the centre of gravity of the jihad actually lies. The sample texts of  the Curriculum are collected and categorized according to subject and  purpose and commented upon in detail, in order to explain the world view  of the jihadists and illustrate how they explain and justify their acts  in religious terms using an exclusively logocentric reasoning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Lastly, the work\u2019s conclusions emphasize the need  to avoid making assumptions based on old analytical habits, to study the  wealth of open source information available on the ideology \u2013 which  should be taken seriously and at face value \u2013 and to understand that the  \u2018Jihad\u2019 is primarily a re-education endeavour and therefore very much a  war of ideas. It calls for the improvement of both the quality and  spectrum of research and analysis, preferably through a  multi-disciplinary approach that can accommodate the return of the  religious dimension to international affairs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ulph_towards_a_curriculum_part1.pdf\" title=\"Ulph_Towards_a_Curriculum_Part1\">Ulph_Towards_a_Curriculum_Part1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ulph_towards_a_curriculum_part2.pdf\" title=\"Ulph_Towards_a_Curriculum_Part2\">Ulph_Towards_a_Curriculum_Part2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ulph_towards_a_curriculum_part3.pdf\" title=\"Ulph_Towards_a_Curriculum_Part3\">Ulph_Towards_a_Curriculum_Part3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 27, 2010 10:00 AM Age: 3 yrs By: Stephen Ulph Towards a Curriculum for the Teaching of Jihadist Ideology aims to provide an introduction to the intellectual infrastructure of the jihadist phenomenon and the process of radicalization, and to furnish materials for a textbook primer to what is still largely an ideological terra incognita [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-islam","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}