In the Hearts of Green Birds
- In the Hearts of Green Birds
"In the Hearts of Green Birds: The Martyrs of Bosnia", a book by various anonymous authors about the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is a foundational text in Islamist literature and exists in numerous languages and recensions. It focuses on the deaths of foreign Muslims who had gone to Bosnia to serve as fighters, or mujahadin and describes their deaths as that of martyrs, or "shauhudaa"' (plural for shahid, "martyr"). The book is available on many Internet sites and is especially popular in audio format, which was the original form before it appeared as a printed text . (Devji: 87, 110)
The title refers to the common belief that the souls of martyrs are carried in the hearts of green birds. [http://www.htexposed.com/negationfaith.html] This idea has also been an inspiration for a book of a similar name but very different subject matter, "In the Belly of the Green Bird", which is an account of the fall of Saddam Hussein and the US military operations in Iraq (Xenakis). Nir Rosen is the author of this latter book.
References
*Devji, Faisal. "Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity." Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-4437-3
*"In the Hearts of Green Birds: The Martyrs of Bosnia". Azzam Publishers
*Rosen, Nir. "In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq," New York: Free Press, 2006. ISBN 0-7432-7703-1
*Schwartz, Stephen. "The Arab Betrayal of Balkan Islam." "The Middle East Quarterly", Vol. 9, No. 2. (Spring 2002). [http://www.meforum.org/article/166]
*"Stories of the Shuhadaa` of Bosnia: 1992-1995" [http://www.islamicawakening.com/viewarticle.php?articleID=200& Review and excerpts]
*Xenakis, Nicholas J. "T for Terrorist," "The National Interest", Vol. 84 (Summer 2006). pp. 134-138.
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