
The Missing Martyrs
Why Are There So Few Muslim Terrorists?
Charles Kurzman(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
2nd Edition
Published on 20. December 2018
Book
Hardback
262 pages
978-0-19-090797-6 (ISBN)
Description
Why are there so few Muslim terrorists? With more than a billion Muslims in the world-many of whom supposedly hate the West and ardently desire martyrdom-why don't we see terrorist attacks every day? Where are the missing martyrs? These questions may seem counterintuitive, in light of the death and devastation that terrorists have wrought around the world. But the scale of violence, outside of civil war zones, has been far lower than the waves of attacks that the world feared in the wake of 9/11. Terrorists' own publications complain about Muslims' failure to join their cause. The Missing Martyrs draws on government sources and revolutionary publications, public opinion surveys and election results, historical documents and in-depth interviews with Muslims in the Middle East and around the world to examine barriers to terrorist recruitment, including liberal Islam, revolutionary rivalries, and an inelastic demand for U.S. foreign policy. This revised edition, updated to include the self-proclaimed "Islamic State," concludes that fear of terrorism should be brought into alignment with the actual level of threat, and that government policies and public opinion should be based on evidence rather than alarmist hyperbole.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
561 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-090797-6 (9780190907976)
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Person
Charles Kurzman is Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His books include Democracy Denied and The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran.
Content
Chapter 1. Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists
Chapter 2. Radical Sheik
Chapter 3. Thoroughly Modern Mujahedin
Chapter 4. Liberal Islam versus Revolutionary Islamism
Chapter 5. Uncle Sam versus Uncle Usama
Chapter 6. Predicting the Next Attacks
Chapter 2. Radical Sheik
Chapter 3. Thoroughly Modern Mujahedin
Chapter 4. Liberal Islam versus Revolutionary Islamism
Chapter 5. Uncle Sam versus Uncle Usama
Chapter 6. Predicting the Next Attacks