"In recent times Islamic martyrdom has become associated with suicide missions conducted by extremists. However, as David Cook demonstrates, this type of martyrdom is very different from the classical definition, which condemned suicide and stipulated that anyone who died as a b…
"State armies around the world commemorate their fallen soldiers through ceremonies of remembrance and ritual memory-making. But these "spectacles of mourning" are careful manipulations of affect, gendered and structured by the military to both acknowledge lives lost and reinfor…
"Imbuing female martyrs with the same strengths as their male counterparts served a vital function in Christian communities. Faced with the possibility of persecution, Christians sought to inspire both men and women to be braver than pagan and Jewish men. Yet within the communit…
"Imbuing female martyrs with the same strengths as their male counterparts served a vital function in Christian communities. Faced with the possibility of persecution, Christians sought to inspire both men and women to be braver than pagan and Jewish men. Yet within the communit…
"This volume contains the Syriac Life of Mar Pinḥas, a purported martyr under the Sasanian Empire. The Life describes Pinḥas's martyrdom while also accounting for his relics. The Syriac text was first published in 1894 by Paul Bedjan, and is provided here with an English transla…
"This volume contains the Syriac Life of Mar Pinḥas, a purported martyr under the Sasanian Empire. The Life describes Pinḥas's martyrdom while also accounting for his relics. The Syriac text was first published in 1894 by Paul Bedjan, and is provided here with an English transla…
