On suicide bombing / Talal Asad.

By:

Asad, Talal

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780231511971
0231511973
0231141521
9780231141529

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: On suicide bombing.DDC classification:

363.325 22

LOC classification:

HV6431 .A82 2007eb

Other classification:

89.58

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Contents:

Terrorism -- Suicide terrorism -- Horror at suicide terrorism.

Summary: Like many people in America and around the world, Talal Asad experienced the events of September 11, 2001, largely through the media and the emotional response of others. For many non-Muslims, "the suicide bomber" quickly became the icon of "an Islamic culture of death"--A conceptual leap that struck Asad as problematic. Is there a "religiously-motivated terrorism?" If so, how does it differ from other cruelties? What makes its motivation "religious"? Where does it stand in relation to other forms of collective violence?Drawing on his extensive scholarship in the s

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-120) and index.

Terrorism -- Suicide terrorism -- Horror at suicide terrorism.

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Like many people in America and around the world, Talal Asad experienced the events of September 11, 2001, largely through the media and the emotional response of others. For many non-Muslims, "the suicide bomber" quickly became the icon of "an Islamic culture of death"--A conceptual leap that struck Asad as problematic. Is there a "religiously-motivated terrorism?" If so, how does it differ from other cruelties? What makes its motivation "religious"? Where does it stand in relation to other forms of collective violence?Drawing on his extensive scholarship in the s

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