Jeremy M. Weinstein, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007 xx +402 pp. £43.00 ISBN 0-521-86077-6 (hardback); £16.99 ISBN 0-521-67797-1 (paperback) Inside Rebellion offers an insightful accoun...

Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence

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Клініко-епідеміологічні особливості спалаху кору в м. Суми у 2014 році

The failure of political Islam

Mampilly provides a sophisticated and challenging approach to thinking about how rebel groups govern their territories, and the implications of this process. The book comprises three conceptual cha...

Rebel rulers: insurgent governance and civilian life during war

Description: Islamic law, the sacred law of Islam grounded in the Qur!!n, the practice of the Prophet Mu\"ammad, and the writings of Muslim scholars and jurists, stretches back nearly 1500 years. In this course, we will explore various aspects of Islamic law as seen through the eyes of one of the great minds of the Middle Ages, Ibn Rushd (known to the West as Averroës, d. 1196). Based on readings from Ibn Rushd’s handbook of Islamic law, The Distinguished Jurist’s Primer (Bid!yat al-mujtahid), and other texts, this course will examine Islamic legal doctrine relating to criminal and penal law, ritual purity, dietary rules, family law, commercial law, and the law of war. Additional readings will deal with the role of the Qur!!n in early Islamic law, gender, Muslim feminism and the law, and some contemporary Muslim responses to the Islamic legal tradition. Students will learn the main outlines of the history of Islamic law, its major concepts, and selected areas of legal doctrine. Comparative analyses of legal doctrines will also serve to introduce students to some general legal concepts. No previous background in Arabic or Islamic studies is required for this course.

An Introduction to Islamic Law

Greed-based theories of civil war predict that rebel groups will only engage in taxation and other state-building activities in areas where they lack exploitable resources. However, this prediction...

What Explains Taxation by Resource-Rich Rebels? Evidence from the Islamic State in Syria

When rebel groups with state-building ambitions capture territory, who stays and why? Through semi-structured interviews and an original household survey in the Iraqi city of Mosul, which was contr...

Competitive Governance and Displacement Decisions Under Rebel Rule: Evidence from the Islamic State in Iraq:

Perspectives on the rebel social contract: Exit, voice, and loyalty in the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria

Islamic Law and Constitutions

The Islamic State, which controlled significant territory in Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2017, engaged in a wide repertoire of violence against civilians living in these areas. Despite extensive media coverage and scholarly attention, the determinants of this pattern of violence remain poorly understood. We argue that, contrary to a widespread assumption that the Islamic State wielded violence indiscriminately, it systematically targeted different social groups with distinct forms of violence, including sexual violence. Our theory focuses on ideology, suggesting it is a necessary element of explanations of patterns of violence on the part of many armed actors. Ideologies, to varying extent, prescribe organizational policies that order or authorize particular forms of violence against specific social groups and institutions that regulate the conditions under which they occur. We find support for our theory in the case of sexual violence by the Islamic State by triangulating between several types of qualitative data: official documents; social media data generated by individuals in or near Islamic State-controlled areas; interviews with Syrians and Iraqis who have knowledge of the organization’s policies including victims of violence and former Islamic State combatants; and secondary sources including local Arabic-language newspapers. Consistent with our theory, we find that the organization adopted ideologically motivated policies that authorized certain forms of sexual violence, including sexual slavery and child marriage. Forms of violence that violated organizational policies but were nonetheless tolerated by many commanders also occurred and we find evidence of two such practices: gang rape of Yazidi women and forced marriage of Sunni Muslim women.

Mara Redlich Revkin

Papers

What Explains Taxation by Resource-Rich Rebels? Evidence from the Islamic State in Syria

Competitive Governance and Displacement Decisions Under Rebel Rule: Evidence from the Islamic State in Iraq:

Perspectives on the rebel social contract: Exit, voice, and loyalty in the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria

Islamic Law and Constitutions

The Islamic State's Pattern of Sexual Violence: Ideology and Institutions, Policies and Practices