Suicide bombers : Allah's new martyrs /
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Author / Creator: | Khosrokhavar, Farhad. |
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Uniform title: | Nouveaux martyrs d'Allah. English |
Imprint: | London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2005. |
Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 258 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11286525 |
Other authors / contributors: | Macey, David, 1949-2011. |
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ISBN: | 9781435660861 1435660862 9781849644723 1849644721 6611750584 9786611750589 9780745322834 0745322832 9780745322841 0745322840 1281750581 9781281750587 |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-254) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 Translated from the French. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
Summary: | In the West, the suicide bomber has become a familiar image in newspapers and on television. In Palestine, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and elsewhere, the results of suicide bombing have been devastating. What drives young men and women to become suicide bombers? This is not a question that is often addressed. This remarkable book provides some of the answers, and explores how the suicide bomber relates to the concept of the martyr in fundamentalist Islam. Farhad Khosrokhavar contrasts it with the idea of the martyr in Christianity. Most importantly, he offers a clear insight into the different ways in which the concept is viewed within Islam, including divisions within Islamic fundamentalist groups, which change according to the political situation of the country in which they are based. Drawing on extensive interviews with jailed Islamist militants, Farhad Khosrokhavar examines differing attitudes towards the 'sacred death' in various Islamic countries, including Iran, Palestine, Lebanon and Egypt. He also investigates transnational networks such as Al-Qaeda, offering portraits of various prisoners who belong to the group. Farhad Khosrokhavar distinguishes between two types of martyr: those from the developing world, who are excluded from what modernity has to offer; and the minority who live at the heart of the Western world -- a mainly middle-class diaspora from the Middle East and the Maghreb who are at ease with several cultural codes, but whose experience of the West is still marked by racism and discrimination. -- Publisher description. |
Other form: | Print version: Khosrokhavar, Farhad. Nouveaux martyrs d'Allah. English. Suicide bombers. London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2005 9780745322841 |
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