RT Article
T1 Nothing is true, everything is permitted: premodern religious terrorism
JF Terrorism and political violence
VO 31
IS 5
SP 1070
OP 1095
A1 Kaplan, Jeffrey
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1846190711
AB In the beginning faith was the alpha and omega of revolutionary dreams and terrorist actions. This article will examine case studies among the Peoples of the Book—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—for religious terrorism is not the product of one faith. It argues that the cultural resonance of each movement examined offers a blank slate on which contemporary seekers, dreamers, and fighters may write. The title, borrowed from a popular novel, is the leitmotif of this form of violence. By all objective forms of analysis, the movements chronicled in these pages are a parade of seemingly stupid ideas held by idealists, fools, and fanatics who dreamed that, with God at their side, they could bring perfection to a fallen world. In such a cause, antinomian violence is inevitable and genocide its logical outcome. Yet these early movements are not to be despised, for together it was they, not the huddled masses cowering before the powers that be, that created the modern world.
NO Gesehen am 25.05.2023
NO Published online: 19 May 2017
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K1 al-Ghazzali
K1 bay’a
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K1 Zealots
K1 houris
K1 Hussites
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K1 Jaʿfar al-Sadiq
K1 Jan Žižka
K1 Josephus
K1 Karta 77
K1 Kharajites
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K1 Old Man of the Mountain
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K1 Shura
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DO 10.1080/09546553.2017.1314964