On Suicide Bombing
- ISBN-10
- 0231141521
- ISBN-13
- 9780231141529
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 128
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Author
- Talal Asad
Description
Drawing on his extensive scholarship in the study of secular and religious traditions as well as his understanding of social, political and anthropological theory and research, Talal Asad questions Western assumptions regarding death and killing.
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