Martyrdom and sacrifice in Islam : theological, political and social contexts / edited by Meir Hatina and Meir Litvak.

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London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2017.
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xvi, 359 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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    Martyrdom in the Muslim world is increasingly integral to conversations about international security . Over the years, the belief system around self sacrifice has become key to understanding the Middle East and its political relationships with the West, although much of the literature and conversation has been restricted to modern concepts of jihadism. The recent spate of scholarship relating to suicide bombers and jihadists studies these concepts without a broader understanding of the principle of martyrdom. This work expands on the chronology of self-sacrifice within Islam and contextualises the use of suicide bombings using details of the rise of martyrdom in places such as Iraq, Lebanon, Chechnya and Pakistan. It historicises the background in which 'jihad' has been glorified while also exploring contemporary methods of recruitment, like the use of the Internet.
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-350) and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction / Meir Hatina and Meir Litvak. Part I. Historical and legal framework. Martyrdom, self-sacrifice and early Islamic politics : some preliminary observations / Jacob Lassner
    • The ambivalent Shiʻi attitude towards martyrdom : some thoughts on a pre-Buwayhid source / Roy Vilozny
    • The status of the battlefield martyr in classical Shiʻi law / Robert Gleave
    • Developing martyrology in Islam / David Cook
    • Part II. Martyrdom in national-sectarian conflicts. From nationalist combatants to martyrs : the war of independence and martyrdom in Algerian memory / Daniel Zisenwine
    • Martyrdom is bliss : the Iranian concept of martyrdom during the war with Iraq, 1981-88 / Meir Litvak
    • The concept of martyrdom as promoted by Hizballah in Lebanon / Isaac Hasson
    • Self-sacrifice and heroism in the discourse of the Syrian Muslim Brethren / Liad Porat
    • Hamas suicide attacks : sublime Islamic goal or merely another weapon? / Reuven Paz
    • "Keen on dying"? Martyrdom in Chechnya from Kunta Hajji to Rustam Gelayev / Yagil Henkin
    • Deobandi sectarian militancy and martyrdom in Pakistan : appropriation and transvaluation in Indo-Muslim traditions of sacred sacrifice / Michaʼel Tanchum
    • Part III. The culture of martyrdom. The other ʻAshuraʼ : the martyrdom of Fatima in contemporary Shiʻi discourse / Liora Hendelman-Baavur
    • Martyrdom, Shiʻa Islam, taʻziya : political symbolism in Shiʻa Islam / William O. Beeman
    • Warrior saints : ʻAbdallah ʻAzzam's reflections on jihad and karamat / Meir Hatina
    • Tales from the crypt : jihadi martyr narratives for online recruitment / Nico Prucha
    • The use and genre of hudaʼ (uplifting battle songs) versus anashid (hymns of praise) in jihadi indoctrination and death rites / Philipp Holtmann.
    ISBN
    • 9781784535087 ((hardbound))
    • 1784535087 ((hardbound))
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    965613311
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