Bibliography 2: #BIB35666

Key	BIB35666
Reference type	Book Section
Title	Introduction
Book title	Martyrdom in the Modern Middle East
Series title	Ex Oriente Lux
Author	Dehghani, Sasha and Horsch, Silvia
Editor	Dehghani, Sasha and Horsch, Silvia
Year	2014
Publisher	Ergon Verlag
Place published	Würzburg
ISBN	9783956500305 (pbk.) 395650030X (pbk.)
Abstract	Continuity and Transformation : Martrydom in the Baha'i Faith -- The birth of a monotheistic religion in modernity : on jihad and martyrdom in the Baha'i Faith / Sasha Dehghani (Berlin) -- Martrydom and servanthood in the Babi and Baha'i Faiths : a struggle to defend a cosmic order / Per-Olof Åkerdahl (Gávle) -- Between Karbala' and Tabriz : contested martyrdom narratives / Moojan Momen Witnessing and sacrifice : theological and philosophical implications of martyrdom -- Sunni and Shiite passion stories revisited : on the superseding of sacrifice and its eventual re-empowerment / Angelika Neuwirth (Berlin) -- Martyrium als Zeugnis : zur Frage nach der theologischen und politischen Valenz religiöser Zeugenschaft, dargelegt am Beispiel des Martyriums der Trappistenmönche von Tibhirine/Algerien / Joachim Negel (Münster/Marburg) -- Gandhi and the sovereignty of death / Faysal Devji (Oxford) Visual representations : ritual, the arts and new media -- Performing a massacre : murder and mayhem in ta*ziyih / Maryam Palizban (Berlin) -- The mystical notion of the perfect man : discourses of Iranian revolutionary painters and the portrayal of martyrs / Alice Bombardier (Paris) -- Making salvation visible : rhetorical and visual representations of martyrs in Salafi jihadist media / Silvia Horsch (Osnabrück) Political action and ideological discourse -- Martyrdom in light of the Arab Spring / Farhad Khosrokhavar (Paris) -- The discursive construction of Palestinian istishh*aiyy*at within the frame of martyrdom / Lisa Franke (Leipzig) -- Global martyr practices and discourses : entanglements between East and West / Silvia Horsch (Onsnabrück).
Notes	Bahá'í Faith: p.9. Revised presentations from a workshop held In October 2011 in Berlin, as well as some additional contributions. Includes bibliographical references.
Language	German English
Keywords	MARTYRDOM; MIDDLE EAST
Pages	7–11
Section	10.
Series volume	Band 14

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