The Caliphate of the Islamic State developed a complex system of online argumentation that mediated and spanned the whole spectrum of jihadist literacy, from glossy magazines to short messages on social networks, from combattant letters to multimedia postings, and from chants to battle-field harangues and sermons. The overall effect was “terrifying” in the etymological sense of the word as arguments served to establish a unique intellectual “territory” that redoubled the physical one. It was molded by a sustained rhetoric that incorporated traditional juristic or theological modes of reasoning, and verbal/visual artefacts. It created an argued literacy meant to endure after the loss of territory. This essay details the various argumentative components of this literacy while questioning the knowledge “we” have of it.

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争论恐怖

伊斯兰国的哈里发发展了一个复杂的在线辩论系统，它调解并跨越了圣战扫盲的整个范围，从光鲜的杂志到社交网络上的短消息，从战斗人员的信件到多媒体帖子，从圣歌到战场长篇大论和布道。从词源意义上来说，整体效果是“可怕的”，因为论证有助于建立一个独特的知识“领土”，使物理“领土”加倍。它是由一种融合了传统法学或神学推理模式以及语言/视觉人工制品的持续修辞塑造的。它创造了一种有争议的读写能力，旨在在失去领土后继续存在。这篇文章详细介绍了这种素养的各种论证成分，同时质疑“我们”对它的了解。