ABSTRACT

This chapter explores the strategy of military conquest, administrative consolidation and territorial expansion of the so-called Islamic State (IS), claiming that the IS constitutes a hybrid formation that overcomes the dichotomy between the secular and the religious. However, contrary to the Habermasian Western vantage-point views of post-secularism as a normative problem-solving process, which would lead to a peaceful inclusion of religion into a secular society, it claims that the IS’s post-secularity – and, particularly, its notion of “mobile territoriality” – appropriates and transforms secular structures and idioms in order for the religious to become translatable to various sections of the society.