And God knows the martyrs martyrdom and violence in jihadi-salafism / Nathan S. French.
| Author/creator | French, Nathan S. |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2020] |
| Description | xvi, 372 pages ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Contents | A Jihadi Salafi Legal Tradition? Debating Authority and Martyrdom -- Performing a Renunciative Unity: On Jihadi-Salafi ʻAqīda and Minhaj -- Intentional Suffering: Self-Renunciative Martyrdom Seeking in the Path of God -- Of Debatable Benefit: Maṣlaḥa and the Tactic of Martyrdom-Seeking -- Self-Renunciation and State Formation? Women, Men, and Constructing a Caliphate. |
| Abstract | ""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. ""-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-357) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019042377 |
| ISBN | 9780190092153 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |