“American Jihad”

This paper looks at competing uses of the concept of jihad in American society in the aftermath of 9/11. It examines three alternative meanings given to “American Jihad.” Three of the instances all have “American Jihad” as their title: a book by Steven Emerson, a commencement speech by a Harvard st...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:2e502d6f2e064c92b91db47e8bd693072021-12-02T17:49:43Z“American Jihad”10.35632/ajis.v22i1.4532690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/2e502d6f2e064c92b91db47e8bd693072005-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/453https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 This paper looks at competing uses of the concept of jihad in American society in the aftermath of 9/11. It examines three alternative meanings given to “American Jihad.” Three of the instances all have “American Jihad” as their title: a book by Steven Emerson, a commencement speech by a Harvard student, and an episode of NBC TV series “Law & Order.” All three cases are acts of politics and moments of regulation of the entry of the concept of jihad into cultural circulation. Mucahit BiliciInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 22, Iss 1 (2005)
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“American Jihad”
description This paper looks at competing uses of the concept of jihad in American society in the aftermath of 9/11. It examines three alternative meanings given to “American Jihad.” Three of the instances all have “American Jihad” as their title: a book by Steven Emerson, a commencement speech by a Harvard student, and an episode of NBC TV series “Law & Order.” All three cases are acts of politics and moments of regulation of the entry of the concept of jihad into cultural circulation.
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