Rushdie is far too optimistic that the Western liberal vision is free from the deficiencies he finds in martyrdom. The scrap of dialogue that has been recorded for posterity is not much more than an ...

Federal authorities arrested a Bangladeshi man who attempted to blow up the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan on Wednesday. Just prior to his arrest, Quazi Nafis told an undercover officer, “We ...

Princeton University’s Elaine Pagels is about the nearest thing there is to a superstar in the realm of Christian history scholarship. It is largely through her work that many understand the early non ...

Few places on earth so revere martyrdom as Iran. I came to that conclusion during a visit to the country in 2002, not long after the Sept. 11 attack on the United States. In my book, “Martyrs: ...

HILLARY CHAPMAN (Bahá’í Educator): The Bahá’í faith begins with two prophetic figures in 19th century Persia. The Báb was a merchant by trade, and came to assert that he was the fulfillment of Islam, ...

Martyrdom is a core embodiment of the concept of obedience to God that leads to the eternal life; the life of authentic contentment and tranquillity. This culture of self-sacrifice in the sake of the ...

As global audiences follow ongoing conflicts, stories of personal sacrifice often stand out. New research from the Kelley School of Business shows that people across the United States consistently ...

In Judaism, martyrdom is an entrenched notion with a long history, culminating in the six million martyrs of the Holocaust. But there is also a “martyrdom by living,” where one defies the enemy by ...

“I HAVE always dreamed”, says an anarchist in Joseph Conrad's novel “The Secret Agent”, “of a band of men absolute in their resolve to discard all scruples...No pity for anything on earth, including ...