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Martyrdom and sacrifice in Islam : theological, political and social contexts / edited by Meir Hatina and Meir Litvak.
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Language
English
Published/Created
London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2017.
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xvi, 359 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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BP190.5.M3 M35 2017
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Martyrdom
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Islam
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Self-sacrifice
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Religious aspects
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Islam
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Death
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Religious aspects
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Islam
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Suicide bombers
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Editor
Hatina, Meir
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Litvak, Meir
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Hatina, Meir
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Litvak, Meir
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Series
Library of modern religion ; 55.
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Library of modern religion ; 55
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Summary note
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.
Bibliographic references
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.
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9781784535087 ((hardbound))
1784535087 ((hardbound))
OCLC
965613311
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