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On suicide bombing / Talal Asad.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Asad, Talal.
- Series:
- Wellek Library lectures at the University of California, Irvine.
- Wellek Library lectures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terrorism.
- Terrorism--Psychological aspects.
- Terrorism--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Suicide bombers--Psychology.
- Suicide bombers.
- Victims of terrorism--Psychology.
- Victims of terrorism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (138 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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""& mdash;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
- Contents:
- Terrorism
- Suicide terrorism
- Horror at suicide terrorism.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-120) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231511971
- 0231511973
- OCLC:
- 166231637
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