The Missing Martyrs
Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2246340 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Abbas Barzegar (Georgia State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 452-453 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1069-4404 • E-ISSN: 1759-8818 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/socrel/srs060 |
| OpenAlex | W2316756708 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Rarely does a topic of controversial concern such as “Muslim terrorism” receive the attention of a seasoned specialist with decades of expertise. Such is the greatest strength of Charles Kurzman's latest monograph, The Missing Martyrs. Here, Kurzman interrogates common presumptions that permeate both academic and popular conceptions about Muslim terrorists and their relationship to the Islamic tradition. With a balanced and accessible tone, he polemically—yet empirically—answers a widely held false presumption best, captured in the question “[I]f there are more than a billion Muslims in the world, many of whom supposedly hate the West and desire martyrdom, why don't we see terrorist attacks everywhere, every day?” (7). Like the recent work of Steven Fish (2011) in political science who through a statistical analysis of global outbreaks of violence neatly refuted Samuel Huntington's famous remark that “Islam has bloody borders” and Esposito and Mogahed's (2008) widely publicized book Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think, Kurzman draws upon a wide array of positive data as well as personal anecdote and narrative prose to demonstrate that Muslim societies demonstrate remarkable aversion to acts of political violence and terrorism.
Anecdote · Art · Criminology · Islam · Literature · Media studies · Muslim world · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Presumption · Sociology · Terrorism · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2021 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |