ISIS's Destruction of Mosul's Historical Monuments: Between Media Spectacle and Religious Doctrine

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378009%3A_____%2F17%3A00483379" target="_blank" >RIV/68378009:_____/17:00483379 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijia.6.2.389_1" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijia.6.2.389_1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijia.6.2.389_1" target="_blank" >10.1386/ijia.6.2.389_1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

ISIS's Destruction of Mosul's Historical Monuments: Between Media Spectacle and Religious Doctrine

Original language description

This article examines the rationale behind ISIS's (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) destruction of the historical monuments in the Iraqi town of Mosul. Their demolition campaign started shortly after this radical organization seized control of the town on June 10, 2014 and was systematically tracked by the authors during the first fifteen months of their control of Mosul. Analysis of satellite imagery, historical literature and ISIS's propaganda material shows that the main object of their destruction was funerary architecture. The collected data has been interpreted within the context of the discourse regarding the destruction of graves in Salafi teachings. The article assumes that among the range of possible reasons for ISIS's behaviour toward Mosul's architecture, special importance should be ascribed to the religious doctrine of taswiyat al-qubur (the levelling of graves). This particular policy has been supported by Salafi scholars and ideologists and often vigorously invoked by religious institutions within Saudi Arabia.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60304 - Religious studies

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA14-16520S" target="_blank" >GA14-16520S: Death, Graves, and the Hereafter in Islam: Muslim Perception of the Last Things in the Middle Ages and Today</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE

ISSN

2045-5895

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

389-415

UT code for WoS article

000416506700007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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