Abstract
In this paper, I present the concepts of jāhiliyya (age of ignorance) and ḥākimiyya (divine sovereignty) in ISIS’s literature. This is done by analysing the groups’s English-language magazines Dabiq and Rumiyah and its Arabic weekly newspaper al-Naba. While ISIS does not cite Ibn Taymiyya directly in the case of jāhiliyya and ḥākimiyya, analysis shows that the group translated Sayyid Qutb’s vision regarding the two concepts on the ground, which has evolved through a series of scholars in different historical periods stemming from the 14th-century jurist, Ibn Taymiyya.
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JAHILIYYA, HAKIMIYYA, ISIS, IBN TAYMIYYA
