Encyclopedia of Islam

Further reading:  Sunni: David Cook, Martyrdom in 

Islam (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007); 

Maher Jarrar, “The Martyrdom of Passionate Lovers. 

Holy War as a Sacred Wedding.” In Hadith: Origins and 

Developments, edited by Harald Motzki (Burlington, Vt.: 

Ashgate/Variorum, 2004); Rudolph Peters, ed., Jihad in 

Classical and Modern Islam, a Reader (Princeton, N.J.: 

Markus Wiener, 1996); Christopher Reuter, My Life Is 

a Weapon: A Modern History of Suicide Bombing (Princ-

eton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004); David M. 

Rosen, “Fighting for the Apocalypse: Palestinian Child 

Soldiers.” In Armies of the Young: Child Soldiers in War 

and Terrorism (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University 

Press, 2005). Shii: Mahmoud Ayoub, Redemptive Suffer-

ing in Islam: A Study of the Devotional Aspects of ‘Ashura’ 

in Twelver Shi’ism (The Hague: Mouton, 1978); Mehdi 

Abedi and Gary Legenhausen, eds. Jihad and Shahadat: 

Struggle and Martyrdom in Islam (Houston: Institute 

for Research and Islamic Studies, 1986); Kamran Scot 

Aghaie, The Martyrs of Karbala: Shi’i Symbols and Ritu-

als in Modern Iran (Seattle: University of Washington 

Press, 2004); Ali Naqi Naqvi, The Martyr of Karbala: 

English Translation of Allama Ali Naqi Naqvi’s “Shaheed-

e-insaniyat” (Karachi: Islamic Culture and Research 

Trust/Muhammadi Trust of Great Britain and Northern 

Ireland, 1984); Lara Deeb, An Enchanted Modern: Gender