Knowing and Not Knowing ISIS. Issue 1 (2nd January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Owen, J. Judd
• Is Part Of: Critical review. Volume 31:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 113
• Page End: 122
• Publication Date: 2019-01-02
• Subjects: Graeme Wood -- ISIS -- Islamic State -- John Locke -- Thomas Hobbes; Libertarianism -- United States -- Periodicals; 320.512
• DOI: 10.1080/08913811.2019.1576991
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0891-3811

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Graeme Wood's The Way of the Strangers suggests that many scholars have denied or downplayed the Islamic State's own account of its emphatically religious foundation. This tendency is heir to the Enlightenment strategy of defanging illiberal religion by claiming that only religions conforming to liberal principles are genuinely religious—raising anew questions that arose at the dawn of liberalism, in the wake of the Wars of Religion.