| Dying as a Shahid: Martyrs in Islam Contributor(s): Israeli, Raphael (Author) |
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ISBN: 1950015165 ISBN-13: 9781950015160 Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency, LL OUR PRICE: $17.58 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Middle East - General - Religion | Islam - Theology - Political Science | Terrorism |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (1.01 lbs) 312 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
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| Publisher Description: Dying as a Shahid: Martyrs in Islam examines the motives, religious and psychological, which make the so-called "suicide bomber" tick. What is usually so called, must rather be termed "Islamikaze," a combination of Islam and kamikaze, due to the phenomenological resemblance between the Japanese kamikaze who fought in the Pacific during World War II, and the present-day Muslim terrorists. In addition to the religious, social, and psychological underpinnings of the phenomenon of Shahid (martyr), there is a rich array of historical precedents that have fixated this sort of terrorism with self-immolation, dubbed "self-sacrifice," as a prominent feature of Islamic life. (About the Author) Raphael Israeli has taught Islamic, Chinese, and Middle Eastern history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. A graduate of Hebrew University in history and Arabic literature, he earned a Ph.D. in Chinese and Islamic history from the University of California, Berkeley. Now retired, he has been a Fellow of the Harry Truman Research Institute at Hebrew University and the Jerusalem Center since the 1970s, and is the author of over 50 research books, a dozen edited books, and 100 scholarly articles about Islam. Born in Fes, Morocco, at fourteen, "I left my family when I could no longer bear the oppression of Jews in an Islamic country and moved to fledgling Israel. To this day, I consider that the wisest and most game-changing decision I took in my life." |
