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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Edwards, David B. (1952-....)
Titre(s) : Caravan of martyrs [Texte imprimé] : sacrifice and suicide bombing in Afghanistan / David B. Edwards
Publication : Oakland, California : University of California press, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xvii, 272 pages) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-253) and index
"In Caravan of Martyrs, David Edwards argues that we need to understand the rise of
suicide bombing in relation to the cultural beliefs and ritual practices associated
with sacrifice. Before the war in Afghanistan began, the sacrificial killing of a
sheep demonstrated a tribe's desire for peace. After the Soviet invasion of 1979,
as thousands of people were killed, sacrifice took on new meanings. The dead were
venerated as martyrs, but this informal conferral of status on the casualties of war
soon became the foundation for a cult of martyrs exploited by political leaders for
their own advantage. This first repurposing of the machinery of sacrifice set in motion
a process of mutation that would lead nineteen Arabs who had received their training
in Afghanistan to hijack airplanes on September 11 and that would in time transform
what began as an Afghan-centered cult of martyrs into the transnational scattering
of suicide bombers that haunts our world today. Drawing on years of research in the
region, Edwards traces the transformation of sacrifice using a wide range of sources,
including the early poetry of jihad, illustrated martyr magazines, school primers
and legal handbooks, martyr hagiographies, videos produced by suicide bombers, the
manual of ritual instructions used by the 9/11 hijackers, and Facebook posts through
which contemporary 'Talifans' promote the virtues of self-destruction"--Provided by
publisher
Sujet(s) : Martyrs musulmans -- Islam
Sacrifice -- Afghanistan
Kamikazes (attentats-suicides)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780520294790. - ISBN 0520294793. - ISBN 9780520967823 (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45558063w
Notice n° :
FRBNF45558063
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Sacrifice ; Honor ; Martyrdom ; Virtue and vice ; Fedayeen ; Suicide bombing
; Selfies ; The widening gyre ; Afghan chronology (1964-2015)
