Ancient Statues in Islamic Context: DAESH’s Discourse - The Response to History

ABSTRACT This article analyzes the discourse developed by DAESH, focused on antiquity. Beyond its radical and destructive nature, the discourse hides greater complexity than expected, since it disguises its true arguments under the false appearance of a religious conflict, participates in current debates regarding the historical narrative built around archeology, pieces and museums, appropriates of ideas taken from the western and colonialist discourse, misrepresents and reinvents the past, and hides not only the reality of an antiquities trade, but also aims to destroy the existence of other perceptions linked to statues, attached to the memory and traditions of local communities, who saw in these statues much more than mere idols of the Ŷāhiliyya, the time before Muḥammad and Islam.

摘要 本文聚焦达伊沙（DAESH）围绕古代遗存所构建的话语体系展开分析。该话语不仅具备极端主义与破坏性特质，其内在复杂性实则远超外界预期：它以宗教冲突的虚假表象掩盖真实论点，参与到当前围绕考古学、文物藏品与博物馆所构建的历史叙事的相关辩论中，挪用源自西方殖民主义话语的理念，歪曲并重塑历史；此外，它不仅掩盖了文物贸易的真实面貌，更旨在摧毁与雕像相关的其他认知的存续空间——这些雕像承载着当地社区的记忆与传统，在当地民众眼中，它们绝非仅仅是贾希利叶（Ŷāhiliyya）时代（即穆罕默德与伊斯兰教诞生前的时代）的偶像。