DYING AS A SHAHID IBD

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Dying as a Shahid: Martyrs in Islam examines the motives, religious and psychological, which make the so-called 'suicide bomber' tick.What is usually so called, must rather be termed 'Islamikaze,' a combination of Islam and kamikaze, due to the phenomenological resemblance between the Japanese kamikaze who fought in the Pacific during World War II, and the present-day Muslim terrorists.In addition to the religious, social, and psychological underpinnings of the phenomenon of Shahid (martyr), there is a rich array of historical precedents that have fixated this sort of terrorism with self-immolation, dubbed 'self-sacrifice,' as a prominent feature of Islamic life.(About the Author)Raphael Israeli has taught Islamic, Chinese,áand Middle Eastern historyáat Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Aágraduate of Hebrew University in history and Arabic literature, he earned a Ph.D. in Chinese and Islamic history from the University of California, Berkeley. Now retired, he has been a Fellow of the Harry Truman Research Institute at Hebrew University and the Jerusalem Center since the 1970s, and is the author of over 50áresearch books,áa dozen edited books, and 100 scholarly articles about Islam. Born in Fes, Morocco, at fourteen, 'I left my family when I could no longer bear the oppression of Jews in an Islamic country and moved to fledgling Israel. To this day, I consider that the wisest and most game-changing decision I took in my life.'