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On Suicide Bombing
Talal Asad
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Description for On Suicide Bombing
Hardback. Questions Western assumptions regarding death and killing. This title scrutinizes the idea of a "clash of civilizations," the claim that "Islamic jihadism" is the essence of modern terror, and the arguments put forward by liberals to justify war in our time. Series: Wellek Library Lectures S. Num Pages: 144 pages, N/A. BIC Classification: JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 304.
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 study of secular and religious traditions as well as his ... Read more
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 study of secular and religious traditions as well as his ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
144
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Series
Wellek Library Lectures S.
Condition
New
Weight
303g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231141529
SKU
V9780231141529
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About Talal Asad
Talal Asad is a professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the author of Formations of the Secular and Genealogies of Religion.
Reviews for On Suicide Bombing
Provocative.
Jonathan Shainin Bookforum Asad's book is valuable because the legal distinctions he is challenging are especially vulnerable now.
Samantha Power The New York Times Book Review
Jonathan Shainin Bookforum Asad's book is valuable because the legal distinctions he is challenging are especially vulnerable now.
Samantha Power The New York Times Book Review