MARTYRDOM IN ISLAM.
Series: THEMES IN ISLAMIC HISTORY
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Published: 2007
Place of publication: NEW YORK
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 206
Description: "In recent times Islamic martyrdom has become associated with suicide missions conducted by extremists. However, as David Cook demonstrates, this type of martyrdom is very different from the classical definition, which condemned suicide and stipulated that anyone who died as a believer could be considered a martyr. Ideas about martyrdom have evolved to suit prevailing circumstances, and it is the evolution of these different interpretations that Cook charts in this history of the role of suffering and people's willingness to die as a testimony to their faith."--Jacket.