Islam tweets

Mathias Hörlesberger
2016 unpublished
Following the assumption that religion is carried out by the human agency, and is as well part of society as law or technology, this thesis tries to show that the here examined Muslim preachers use their of cial Twitter accounts similarly to the Islamic State. The missing link connecting both, the selected Muslim scholars and the Islamic State, is their underlying ideology, namely Sala sm. Even though, the lines in between the several branches are very uid, one can distinguish three main arms:
more » ... he puritan, political and jihadi Sala sm. When looking closer at Islam's notion of jihad, one can see that there is jihad by the sword, referring to combative actions, and the jihad by heart, mouth and hand, which some Muslim jurist-theologians have summed up as the "greater" jihad. This work argues that if the Islamic State propagates jihad by sword on social media, then the examined Muslim preachers use their social media presence to pursue jihad by mouth using similar content patterns as Daesh.
doi:10.25365/thesis.42853 fatcat:zhbm6nqa35e7bpubuqjl3ylv2i