Introduction: Two forms of martyrdom
1. Islam
Jihad: Holy War
Martyrdom in Islam
The difficult secularisation of religion
Reinterpretations of martyrdom and Jihad
The paradoxical individualisation of religious discourse
Martyropathy
Death and fear of dying
2. The impossible national community
Martyrdom in Iran
Martyrdom in Palestine
Lebanon: between martyrdom and absurdity
3. The transnational Neo-umma: al-Qaeda's martyrs
Diasporic Ummas
Forms of humiliation
A new self-consciousness
The world metropolis
Organisational forms
Different types of actor
The new middle-class diaspora
The case of Britain
The case of America
Jihadist families
Converts
The exclusion of women
The new globalised imaginary
Conclusion.