On suicide bombing / Talal Asad.

9780231511971 (electronic bk.)
0231511973 (electronic bk.)
0231141521 (clothbound ; alk. paper)
9780231141529 (clothbound ; alk. paper)

New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007.

English

1 online resource (128 pages)

HV6431 .A82 2007eb

(OCoLC)166231637

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

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

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Wellek Library lectures at the University of California, Irvine.

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