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Meir Hatina is a professor and Chair of the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the former Director of The Nehemia Levtzion Center of Islamic Studies at the same university.

Meir Litvak is Director of the Alliance Center for Iranian Studies at Tel Aviv University and an associate professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at the same university. He holds a PhD from Harvard University.

There is no volume I am aware of that brings together such a rich and disparate set of reflections on the important topic of martyrdom in Islam.

Bernard Haykel, Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Director, Institute for Transregional Studies at Princeton University

The breadth and the depth of the scholarship assembled in this volume is truly impressive, and several of the articles constitute substantial progress in our understanding of the topic.

Rainer Brunner, Director of Research, The French National Center for Scientific Research, Paris

Martyrdom
and Sacrifice
in Islam

Theological, Political
and Social Contexts

EDITED BY
MEIR HATINA AND MEIR LITVAK

Published in 2017 by
I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd
London New York

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Copyright Editorial Selection 2017 Meir Hatina and Meir Litvak

The right of Meir Hatina and Meir Litvak to be identified as the editors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Copyright individual chapters 2017 William O. Beeman, David Cook, Robert Gleave, Isaac Hasson, Meir Hatina, Liora Hendelman-Baavur, Yagil Henkin, Philipp Holtmann, Jacob Lassner, Meir Litvak, Reuven Paz, Liad Porat, Nico Prucha, Michael Tanchum, Roy Vilozny and Daniel Zisenwine.

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Library of Modern Religion 55

ISBN : 978 1 78453 508 7

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In memory of Moshe Gammer,
colleague and friend

Table of Contents

Meir Hatina and Meir Litvak

Jacob Lassner

Roy Vilozny

Robert Gleave

David Cook

Daniel Zisenwine

Meir Litvak

Isaac Hasson

Liad Porat

Reuven Paz

Yagil Henkin

Michael Tanchum

Liora Hendelman-Baavur

William O. Beeman

Meir Hatina

Nico Prucha

Philipp Holtmann

Notes

List of Contributors

William O. Beeman is a professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota. He is an expert in the field of performance studies, particularly the study of non-Western theatrical traditions, including in Iran, Japan, China and South Asia. He is the author of several books, including Language Status and Power in Iran (1986); Iranian Performance Traditions (2011); and The Great Satan vs. the Mad Mullahs: How the United States and Iran Demonize Each Other (2008).

David Cook is Associate Professor at Rice University. His fields of interest include early Islam, Muslim apocalyptic literature and movements for radical social change, historical astronomy, Judeo-Arabic literature and West African Islam. He is the author of Contemporary Muslim Apocalyptic Literature (2005); Understanding Jihad (2005); and Martyrdom in Islam (2007), and co-author of Understanding and Addressing Suicide Attacks: the Faith and Politics of Martyrdom Operations (2007).

Robert Gleave is Professor of Arabic Studies, University of Exeter. He is Director of the Islamic Reformulations project in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies there, and has led the Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Islamic Thought project (www.livitproject.net). His most recent monograph is Islam and Literalism: Literal Meaning and interpretation in Islamic Legal Theory (2012). He is also the co-editor of Violence in Islamic Thought from The Quran to the Monglos (2015).

Isaac Hasson is Professor Emeritus of Arabic Language and Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research deals with early Islamic history, the place of Jerusalem in Islam, and aspects of Islamic historiography. In recent research, he has focused on the modern Shia and on Sunni-Shii polemics. He is the editor of Fadail al-Bayt al-Muqaddas by Abu Bakr Muhammad b. Ahmad al-Wasiti (1979) and co-editor of Le Voyage de Muhammad ibn Said al-Suwaysi au Yaman 18901895 (2008).

Meir Hatina is a professor and Chair of the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on the history of ideas and politics in the modern Middle East, and has an emphasis on Islamic thought and politics. His publications include Identity Politics in the Middle East (2007); Ulama, Politics, and the Public Sphere (2010); and Martyrdom in Modern Islam: Piety, Power and Politics (2014). He is also the editor of Guardians of Faith in Modern Times: Ulama in the Middle East (2008), and the co-editor of Narrating the Nile: Politics, Cultures, Identities (2008) and Religious Knowledge, Authority and Charisma: Islamic and Jewish Perspectives (2014).

Liora Hendelman-Baavur is a lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on gender studies, the history of Iranian journalism, popular culture and civil society. She is the author of The Mirror Has Two Faces: The Islamic Republics Dual Policy toward the Internet, Orient IV (2013); Judeo-Persian Communities: The Islamic Republic of Iran, (19792009), in Jewish Communities of Iran, ed. Houman Sarshar (Encyclopedia Iranica Foundation, 2011); and Grotesque Corporeality and Literary Aesthetics in Sadeq Chubaks The Patient Stone, Iranian Studies 47/4 (2014). She is also co-editor of Iran: Anatomy of Revolution (2009, in Hebrew).

Yagil Henkin is an expert on military history. His research focuses on Israeli military history and Small Wars involving non-state-actors, terrorism and irregular warfare. He also regularly leads battlefield tours, both in Israel and in Western Europe, and writes hiking and battlefield guidebooks. Among his publications are Either we Win or we Perish: the History of the First Chechen War, 19941996 (2007, in Hebrew); Uneasy Red: A Self-guided Journey around Omaha Beach, following in the Footsteps of Those Who Fought There on D-Day (2014); and The 1956 Suez War and the New World Order in the Middle East: Exodus in Reverse

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