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Martyrdom in Modern Islam - Piety, Power, and Politics (Hardcover)
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Martyrdom in Modern Islam - Piety, Power, and Politics (Hardcover)
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The Islamic resurgence in modern times has received extensive
treatment in scholarly literature. Most of this literature,
however, deals with the concept of jihad and disputes between
radicals and their rivals over theological and political issues,
and far less with martyrdom and death. Moreover, studies that do
address the issue of martyrdom focus mainly on 'suicide' attacks -
a phenomenon of the late twentieth century and onward - without
sufficiently placing them within a historical perspective or using
an integrative approach to illuminate their political, social and
symbolic features. This book fills these lacunae by tracing the
evolving Islamic perceptions of martyrdom, its political and
symbolic functions, and its use of past legacies in both Sunni and
Shi'i milieus, with comparative references to Judaism, Christianity
and other non-Islamic domains. Based on wide-ranging primary
sources, along with historical and sociological literature, the
study provides an in-depth analysis of modern Islamic martyrdom and
its various interpretations while also evaluating the historical
realities in which such interpretations were molded and debated.
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