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4. State-Building Jihadi Organizations

Author : Hamoon Khelghat-Doost

Published in: The Strategic Logic of Women in Jihadi Organizations

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Unlike operation-based jihadi organizations, the rise of a new type of jihadi groups such as the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) with a clear vision to establish a state changed our understanding of jihadism. These groups are classified as state-building jihadi organizations in this book. The chaotic socio-political condition of countries such as Syria and Iraq provided the conducive environment for these groups to transfer from being operation-based to state builders. Founding their states included establishing various councils and bureaus with specialized objectives to administer the society they rule. The main objective of state-building jihadi organizations is to embrace a new vision for a society governed by a strict interpretation of Sharia law. Their logic of women is therefore connected to their need for addressing the challenges facing a functioning state including gaining legitimacy, putting the state’s sociopolitical framework into practice (public goods and service provision), and helping to increase their chances of survival (security). Based on this logic, ISIS was successful to convince thousands of women from all round to migrate to its territories in Iraq and Syria.

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Footnotes
1
State-building jihadi groups claim to revitalize the tradition of the caliphate. How and which traditional structure of caliphate these organizations follow is disputed as the structures of the Umayyad, early Abbasid, and later Abbasid caliphates differed from each other in important ways.
 
2
The size of territory ruled by these groups does not affect their self-claimed statehood. In this case, they are similar to internationally recognized states in the world which range from small city-states such as Monaco to those massive in size including Russia or Canada.
 
3
State sovereignty is conventionally described as the concept that states are in complete and exclusive control of all the people and property within their territory. State sovereignty also includes the idea that all states are equal as states.
 
4
Conventional war is defined as armed conflict between two or more states that employ recently developed, non-nuclear weaponry for direct combat between organized military forces.
 
5
Vehicle borne IEDs (VBIEDs) are devices that use a vehicle as the package or container of the device.
 
6
According to Max Weber, a modern state is a system of administration and law which is modified by state and law and which guides the collective actions of the executive staff; the executive is regulated by statute likewise, and claims authority over members of the association (those who necessarily belong to the association by birth) but within a broader scope over all actively taking place in the territory over which it exercises domination.
 
7
For example, women with headscarves in France are banned from attending schools and from attending some public events such as entering opera houses.
 
8
Islamism (or Political Islam) is an ideology believing that Islam should guide social and political as well as personal life.
 
9
These gender-segregated parallel institutions are the female branch of the existing institutions (including police force, healthcare system, education, military forces, etc.) which are administrated by women to offer services to women only.
 
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Metadata
Title
State-Building Jihadi Organizations
Author
Hamoon Khelghat-Doost
Copyright Year
2021
Book
The Strategic Logic of Women in Jihadi Organizations

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-59387-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-59388-9

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59388-9_4