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Authors: Farhad Khosrokhavar, David Macey
ISBN-13: 9780745322834, ISBN-10: 0745322832
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pluto Press
Date Published: February 2005
Edition: New Edition

Author Biography: Farhad Khosrokhavar

Farhad Khosrokhavar is Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has published more than ten books on Iran, Islam and the West. He is currently researching and writing about prisons and religion in France, and he speaks regularly at conferences in the UK.

Book Synopsis

What drives young men and women to become suicide bombers? This remarkable book, already a bestseller in Europe, provides some answers.

	Introduction : two forms of martyrdom	4
1	Islam	11
	Jihad : holy war	13
	Martyrdom in Islam	20
	The difficult secularisation of religion	25
	Reinterpretations of martyrdom and Jihad	28
	The paradoxical individualisation of religious discourse	52
	Martyropathy	58
	Death and fear of dying	62
2	The impossible national community	70
	Martyrdom in Iran	70
	Martyrdom in Palestine	109
	Lebanon : between martyrdom and absurdity	141
3	The transnational neo-umma : al-Qaeda's martyrs	149
	Diasporic ummas	149
	Forms of humiliation	152
	A new self-consciousness	153
	The world metropolis	158
	Organisational forms	161
	Different types of actor	174
	The new middle-class diaspora	175
	The case of Britain	195
	The case of America	200
	Jihadist families	204
	Converts	206
	The exclusion of women	217
	The new globalised imaginary	219

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