{"id":99728,"date":"2022-09-16T17:19:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T17:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=99728"},"modified":"2022-09-16T17:20:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T17:20:29","slug":"riaz-hassan-straddling-the-world-an-ecumenical-scholar-for-all-ages-by-michael-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/riaz-hassan-straddling-the-world-an-ecumenical-scholar-for-all-ages-by-michael-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Riaz Hassan: Straddling the World \u2026. An Ecumenical Scholar for All Ages-by Michael Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Riaz Hassan: Straddling the World \u2026. An Ecumenical Scholar for All Ages<\/span>–by Michael Roberts<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

\"Michael<\/p>\n

Source:<\/span><\/strong>Thuppahis<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

I met Riaz Hassan for the first time as one of the keynote speakers at a conference organised by Neelan Tiruchelvam in Sri Lanka circa 1974 (details forgotten) when I was teaching in the History Department at Peradeniya University and Riaz was at an university in Singapore. It was the best of serendipity (a word deriving perhaps from Serendib aka Sri Lanka) that I found him attached to Flinders University when I moved to the Anthropology Department at University in 1977.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Riaz<\/p>\n

Not merely that. Riaz and Selva lived at the southern end of Fullarton Road just down the hill and a literal stone\u2019s throw from Belair where our family settled down. The Hassans then moved to another spot up the hill in Belair. Since I also chose to play cricket, soccer and rugger for Flinders University, our range of mutual contacts also expanded. A few, such as Alex Hope, have also passed on. But Selva, Vivienne Hope, Lance Brennan, Michael Morley, Raj Huilgol, Ron Slee, Ralph Shlomowitz, Peter Mayer, Wilfred Prest and Shamsul Khan remain among the common friends who bat on. All of them were among those who assembled at Flinders University recently in a ceremony that commemorated Professor Riaz Hassan\u2019s long service to that institution.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Riaz was\u00a0a scholar for all ages and all ethnic streams.\u00a0<\/strong>He\u00a0remains one \u2013 ever pertinent through his research endeavours (see \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u00a0https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2022\/09\/15\/in-appreciation-of-professor-riaz-hassan-two-accolades-as-vale\/#more-65948<\/a>).\u00a0Among the topics he addressed, the tricky one of\u00a0suicide<\/strong>\u00a0stands out. Since I engaged in the study of suicide missions pursued by the Tamil Tigers, the Muslim jihadists and the Japanese kamikaze during World War I, some of our major research interests overlapped. This line of research also had to, perforce, address the acts of suicidal self-immolation in protest by such individuals as the Vietnamese monk Thich Quang Duc on 11th<\/sup>\u00a0June 1963[1]<\/a>, Norman Morrison in Washington on 2 November 1965 in objection to USA\u2019s programmes in Vietnam and the Czech student Jan Palach protesting the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia on 19th<\/sup>\u00a0January 1969 (see Note below on \u201cPolitical Acts of Suicidal Protest\u201d).[1]<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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My work in this field profited from conversations with Riaz in the late 1990s and the first decade of the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century.[2]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Like myself, there will be a wide range of scholars and students who miss his grounded thoughts on many a topic.\u00a0<\/strong>But, above, all, we will be missing his humane warmth and fellowship.<\/span><\/p>\n

Abide comfortably RIAZ.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A =\u00a0 SELECT\u00a0<\/strong>REFERENCES\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Thich Quang Duc:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2026 amazon.com.au\/Nbuddhist-Committing-Self-Immolation-Intersection-Anti-Buddhist\/dp\/B07DPLHR9G<\/span><\/p>\n

Francis A.M. Manno:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cMonk on fire: The meditative mind of a burning monk,\u201d\u00a0Cogent Psychology,\u00a0<\/a>2019,\u00a0<\/strong>Volume 6\/1<\/a>\u2026\u2026.\u00a0https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/23311908.2019.1678556<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norman_Morrison<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Steinbach, Alice<\/strong>\u00a0(30 July 1995).\u00a0\u201cThe Sacrifice of Norman Morrison \u2013 Thirty years ago a Baltimore Quaker set himself on fire to protest the war in Vietnam. Did it make a difference?\u201d<\/a>.\u00a0The Baltimore Sun<\/em>. Retrieved\u00a02021-04-05.<\/span><\/p>\n

BBC:<\/strong>\u00a0A life in flames: Anne Morrison Welch<\/a>, 21 December, 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jan_Palach<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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B \u2014 REFERENCES<\/strong>: Essays by Roberts on the Self-Sacrificial Commitment of the Tamil Tigers<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

2005b \u201cTamil Tiger \u2018Martyrs\u2019: Regenerating Divine Potency?\u201d\u00a0Studies in Conflict\u00a0 & Terrorism<\/em>\u00a028: 493-514.<\/span><\/p>\n

2005c \u201cSaivite Symbolism, Sacrifice and Tamil Tiger Rites\u201d,\u00a0Social Analysis<\/em>\u00a049: 67-93.<\/span><\/p>\n

2006a \u201cPragmatic Action & Enchanted Worlds: A Black Tiger Rite Of Commemoration,\u201d\u00a0Social<\/em>\u00a0Analysis<\/em>, 50: 73-102.<\/span><\/p>\n

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2006b \u201cThe Tamil Movement for Eelam,\u201d\u00a0E-Bulletin of the International Sociological Association<\/em>\u00a0No. 4,\u00a0July 2006, pp. 12-24.<\/span><\/p>\n

2006c \u201cUnderstanding Zealotry and Questions for Post-Orientalism, I\u201d\u00a0Lines\u00a0<\/em>May-August 2006,\u00a0vol.5, 1 & 2, in\u00a0http:\/\/www.lines-magazine.org<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

2007b \u201cSuicide Missions as Witnessing: Expansions, Contrasts,\u201d\u00a0Studies<\/em>\u00a0in Conflict and Terrorism<\/em>, 30: \u00a0857-88.<\/span><\/p>\n

2007c \u201cBlunders in Tigerland: Pape\u2019s Muddles on \u2018Suicide Bombers\u2019 in Sri Lanka,\u201d Online publication within series known as Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics (HPSACP), ISSN: 1617-5069.<\/span><\/p>\n

2008 \u201cTamil Tigers: Sacrificial Symbolism and \u2018Dead Body Politics\u2019,\u201d\u00a0Anthropology Today<\/em>, June 2008, 24\/3: 22-23.<\/span><\/p>\n

2010b\u00a0 \u201cKilling Rajiv Gandhi: Dhanu\u2019s Metamorphosis in Death?\u201d\u00a0South Asian History and Culture,\u00a0<\/em>Vol 1, No. 1, pp.25-41.<\/span><\/p>\n

2010c \u201cSelf Annihilation for Political Cause: Cultural Premises in Tamil Tiger Selflessness,\u201d in\u00a0Roberts,\u00a0Fire and Storm. Essays in Sri Lankan Politics<\/em>. Colombo: Vijitha Yapa Publications, pp. 161-201.<\/span><\/p>\n

Roberts:<\/strong>\u00a0Fire and Storm. Essays in Sri Lankan Politics<\/em>.<\/strong>\u00a0Colombo: Vijitha Yapa Publications, pp. 161-201.<\/span><\/p>\n

2012 \u201cEncompassing Empowerment in Ritual, War & Assassination: Tantric Principles in Tamil Tiger Instrumentalities,\u201d in\u00a0Social Analysis<\/em>, sp. issue on War Magic ed. by D. S. Farrer, pp. 88-106.<\/span><\/p>\n

2020 \u201cKamikaze, Mujahid, Tamil Tiger: Sacrificial Devotion in Comparative Lens,\u201d 12 November 2020,\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2020\/11\/12\/kamikaze-mujahid-tamil-tiger-sacrificial-devotion-in-comparative-lens\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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