And God Knows the Martyrs: Martyrdom and Violence in Jihadi-salafism

Description

""Jihadi-Salafi narratives of martyrdom-seeking operations are filled with praise for what they label the exemplary self-renunciative acts of their martyrs performed as a model of the earliest traditions of Islam. While many studies evaluate the biographies of these would-be martyrs for evidence of social, psychological, political, or economic strain in an effort to rationalize what are often labelled "suicide bombings", this book argues that through their legal arguments debating martyrdom-seeking operations Jihadi-Salafis, including those fighting for al-Qaʻida, ISIS, and their affiliates, craft a theodicy meant to address the suffering and oppression faced by the global Muslim community. Taking as its source material legal arguments (fatwas), texts, pamphlets, magazines, forum posts, videos, and audio files from authors sympathetic to both al-Qaʻida and ISIS on the subjects of martyrdom operations, jurisprudence, and political philosophies, this book reveals that the Jihadi-Salafi legal debates on martyrdom-seeking re-arrange the basic objectives (maqāṣid) of the Shariʻa around the principles of maximizing the general welfare (maṣlaḥa) and promoting religion (dīn) above all other concerns - including the preservation of life. This utilitarian turn opens the possibility for formulating a meaningful engagement and critique of Jihadi-Salafi legal interpretation and theories of warfare within a broader, just war framework. However, as the jurists and propagandists of ISIS demonstrate, this turn also opens the possibility for the utilization of self-renunciative violence as engendering modes of state formation. ""--

Get the book

Amazon.com

Search the book

eBay.com

Search the book

Other editions

• 

  And God Knows the Martyrs: Martyrdom and Violence in Jihadi-Salafism

  • 2020
  • 392 pages
  • Paperback
  • Oxford University Press, USA

Similar books

• 

  Islam, Terrorism and Your Future

  By Isaac Ben Abraham

  These beliefs foster an even greater defensiveness on the part of Muslims who encounter non - Muslims . After all , if a Muslim cannot know with certainty that he is forgiven ... how can he readily forgive others ?

• 

  Decoding Al-Qaeda's Strategy: The Deep Battle Against America

  By Michael W. S. Ryan

  The first book to draw a blueprint for defeating al-Qaeda on ideological rather than military grounds.

• 

  Syria, Iraq and the Struggle for Power: Intertwined Futures

  By Hayder al Khoei

  Nouri al-Maliki's authoritarian policies in Iraq, coupled with US, Gulf Arab and Turkish support for militants in Syria, enabled jihadists across both Syria and Iraq to exploit local Sunni grievances and the security and political crises to ...

• 

  The crisis of Islam: Islam dalam krisis: antara perang suci dan teror kotor

  By Bernard Lewis, Muhammad Harir Muzakki

  The crisis of Islam: Islam dalam krisis: antara perang suci dan teror kotor

• 

  Ide perang suci dalam tradisi Islam dan Barat

  By James Turner Johnson

  Ide perang suci dalam tradisi Islam dan Barat

• 

  Salafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea

  By Shiraz Maher

  What emerges is the story of a pragmatic but resilient warrior doctrine that often struggles - as so many utopian ideologies do - to consolidate the idealism of theory with the reality of practice.

• 

  Quotations from Osama Bin Laden

  By Brad K. Berner

  Although for much of the world Osama Bin Laden is the public face of contemporary Islamist fundamentalist terrorism, he is a hero for a significant Islamist fundamentalist minority for his violent resistance to Western encroachment on ...

• 

  Urban Terrorism: Myths and Realities

  By N. C. Asthana, Anjali Nirmal

  might or might not have been a listed member of Al Qaida , but he regarded Al Qaida as the symbol and epitome of all that he himself had felt strongly about . ) Algiers - 2007 There were two near simultaneous bombings in Algiers which ...

• 

  IntelCenter Terrorist & Rebel Logo Identification Guide

  By IntelCenter, Tempest Publishing

  Color visual recognition guide showing logos and other imagery associated with terrorist and rebel groups around the world.

• 

  Penakluk Andalusia

  By Luqman Ghazzi

  ... Saad bin Abu Waqas mencari lagi anak panah dan memanah seorang lagi tentera musuh sehingga menembusi bahagian lehernya. Keberanian Saad bin Abu Waqas dan sahabat lain menentang pihak musuh berjaya menyelamatkan nabi ke tempat yang lebih ...