Jihadology Podcast: Nashids: History and Cultural Meaning
Behnam Said comes on the show to talk about nasheeds. Some of the topics covered include:
Behnam Said comes on the show to talk about nasheeds. Some of the topics covered include:
- The role of music in Islam and how it relates to nasheeds
- A modern history of the use of nasheeds
- Differences between Sufi, mainstream Islamist, and jihadi nasheeds
- Different themes used in these nasheeds
- Why there has been such an explosion in new nasheeds and media outlets from IS and AQAP recently
Aaron Y. Zelin is the Richard Borow Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a visiting research scholar in the Department of Politics at Brandeis University, and the founder of Jihadology. He is also the author of the book “Your Sons Are At Your Service: Tunisia’s Missionaries of Jihad” (Columbia University Press, 2020) and the recent booklet “The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.”
