RT Article
T1 Russia in the Eyes of Islamic State: An Analysis of the Content of Dabiq and Rumiyah Magazines and Russia’s Involvement in the Fight against the Islamic State
JF Terrorism and political violence
VO 33
IS 8
SP 1752
OP 1774
A1 Stempień, Marta Sara
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/178352961X
AB This paper analyzes a large content of the Islamic State (IS) English-language magazines Dabiq (fifteen issues, 2014–2016) and Rumiyah (13 issues, 2016–2017), which represent the largest text sample of IS propaganda prepared for English-speaking recipients. The author attempts to understand the propaganda methods and leading themes related to Russia exploited in the magazine. Research confirmed strong, omnipresent religious dualism between “believing” and “disbelieving” applied to non-religious entities, seen by Islamic State as enemies. Thus, military opponents, such as Russia are labeled with words such as Crusaders or unbelievers, while self-proclaimed caliphate is portrayed as the last Muslim bastion against the invaders. This article attempts to fill a gap in research on the Islamic State’s propaganda methods used in its flagship online magazines. Its major objective is to discover and understand the Islamic State’s approach to one of its biggest enemies—the Russian Federation. In order to reach this goal, quantitative and qualitative content analysis is used.
K1 Islamischer Staat
K1 Dabiq
K1 Rumiyah
K1 Terrorismus
K1 Propaganda
K1 Elektronische Zeitschrift
K1 Content Analysis
K1 Terrorism
K1 Islamic State
K1 Digital jihad
K1 Russland
DO 10.1080/09546553.2019.1657097