My second paper "The Major Corporal Punishments of Islamic State" situates the group's use of corporal punishments within the wider context of pre-modern Islamic shari'a and its role in group ideology. It details how Islamic State's legal canon on major corporal punishments developed.

My first paper for @cja-news.bsky.social was a collaboration with my long-term partner in crime @craigwhiteside.bsky.social. In "From Allies to Foes", we trace the evolution of the Islamic State movement's relations to other Sunni Islamist insurgents in Syria up to the insurgent infighting of 2014.

Last week, @cja-news.bsky.social let me present two papers at their workshop on Islamic State accountability in London. Find threads on the two papers below. bsky.app/profile/cja-...

Finally, @neaskhan.bsky.social introduced his examination of IS’s penal code and judicial proceedings relating to corporal punishment: cja.org/wp-content/u...

@neaskhan.bsky.social presented his and Craig Whiteside’s paper tracing how ISIL relations with other Sunni Islamist insurgents shifted from cooperation through competition to coercion: cja.org/wp-content/u...

The project that @emorier.bsky.social, @vincentfoucher.bsky.social, @corinnajentzsch.com and I are coordinating on armed jihad in Africa is advertising three postdoc positions, in Belfast and Bordeaux. Find all the details below. Apply and/or circulate!

My lecture on Islamic State‘s conception of the past and its use of pre-modern history in propaganda is now online both as video and podcast with Gerda Henkel Stiftung’s L.I.S.A. (German only).

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Mein Vortrag „Das anachronistische Kalifat? Der ‚Islamische Staat‘ von Retrotopie zu Reenactment“ ist mittlerweile auf der Plattform L.I.S.A. der Gerda Henkel Stiftung online verfügbar. Neben dem Videomitschnitt gibt es den Vortrag auch als Podcast. lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/abuse_mediev...