{ "item_title" : "Dying as a Shahid", "item_author" : [" Raphael Israeli "], "item_description" : "Dying as a Shahid: Martyrs in Islam examines the motives, religious and psychological, which make the so-called suicide bomber tick.What is usually so called, must rather be termed Islamikaze, a combination of Islam and kamikaze, due to the phenomenological resemblance between the Japanese kamikaze who fought in the Pacific during World War II, and the present-day Muslim terrorists.In addition to the religious, social, and psychological underpinnings of the phenomenon of Shahid (martyr), there is a rich array of historical precedents that have fixated this sort of terrorism with self-immolation, dubbed self-sacrifice, as a prominent feature of Islamic life.(About the Author)Raphael Israeli has taught Islamic, Chinese, and Middle Eastern history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. A graduate of Hebrew University in history and Arabic literature, he earned a Ph.D. in Chinese and Islamic history from the University of California, Berkeley. Now retired, he has been a Fellow of the Harry Truman Research Institute at Hebrew University and the Jerusalem Center since the 1970s, and is the author of over 50 research books, a dozen edited books, and 100 scholarly articles about Islam. Born in Fes, Morocco, at fourteen, I left my family when I could no longer bear the oppression of Jews in an Islamic country and moved to fledgling Israel. To this day, I consider that the wisest and most game-changing decision I took in my life.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/95/001/516/1950015165_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "18.50", "online_price" : "18.50", "our_price" : "18.50", "club_price" : "18.50", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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