And God Knows the Martyrs Martyrdom and Violence in Jihadi-Salafism

Nathan French is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Religion at Miami University in Ohio. Recently, he has contributed to the Routledge Handbook on Islam and Gender and to Teaching Islamic Studies in the Age of ISIS, Islamophobia, and the Internet. His work has also appeared in the Journal of Religion and Violence and Mizan.

Acknowledgments

A Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Sourcing

Glossary

Reference List of Jihadi-Salafi Jurists and Authors

Introduction - Jihadi-Salafism, Theodicy, and the Renunciation of Suffering

Chapter One - A Jihadi Salafi Legal Tradition? Debating Authority and Martyrdom

Chapter Two - Performing a Renunciative Unity: On Jihadi-Salafi 'Aqida and Minhaj

Chapter Three - Intentional Suffering: Self-Renunciative Martyrdom Seeking in the Path of God

Chapter Four - Of Debatable Benefit: Ma?la?a and the Tactic of Martyrdom-Seeking

Chapter Five - Self-Renunciation and State Formation? Women, Men, and Constructing a Caliphate

Conclusion - "The Islamic State is Remaining and Expanding:" On the Collapse of the Caliphate

Appendices

Bibliography

Notes

Index