True Believers - A Symbolic Anthropological Study of Islamist Culture

A profoundly unique perspective on Jihadist culture, this book isolates a heretofore unidentified symbolic code made up of Islamic ideologies, customs, traditions, and histories alongside myths, rituals, legends, and shared symbolic forms. Dr. Perlmutter introduces the concept of Symbolic Warfare as a form of information operations based in symbolic methodologies instead of psychological tactics. Rather than a psychological analysis of fanaticism, Dr. Perlmutter conducts a semiotic analysis of the inculcation of a true believer using the ritual manipulation of man’s primal instincts through the oldest and most powerful form of interaction; symbols.