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 本文分析了达伊沙（DAESH）围绕古代历史遗存所构建的叙事话语。该话语不仅兼具激进性与破坏性，其背后暗藏远超预期的复杂逻辑：它以宗教冲突的虚假表象掩盖自身真实诉求，参与到当下围绕考古学、文物与博物馆搭建的历史叙事相关论争之中，盗用源自西方殖民主义话语的思想内核，歪曲并重塑历史；它不仅掩盖了古物贸易的真实状况，更意图消解与雕像相关的其他认知的存在——这些雕像承载着当地社区的记忆与传统，而在当地社区眼中，这些雕像绝非仅仅是穆罕默德与伊斯兰教诞生前的蒙昧时代（Ŷāhiliyya）的偶像。