A martyrdom-seeker argued that provoking others to kill him was not suicide

Evidence

Since his private intention was frankly to seek martyrdom this defence of provocation seems disingenuous; he also more openly argued that to tempt others to kill one was not suicide. In any case he followed his own recommendation, bursting into the Friday prayer in the presence of the sultan, and crying out in French against the mortiferam sectam: interpreters and renegades present alone understood what he said. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 689

Categorization

• DEFINE: The quaestio ‘set licitum Christiano… intrare Saracenorum mesquitas’ — the canonical debate over whether entering mosques to preach was licit — is a genuine doctrinal framework worth defining.
• QUESTION: How did canon law ultimately resolve the question of whether provoking one’s own martyrdom counted as suicide?
• XREF: The suicide-via-proxy argument echoes the sacrificial death-seeking discussed in ‘On Sacrifice’ — the ethical hair-splitting around sought death. — connects to: Medieval friars debated whether provoking one’s own martyrdom was suicide; The urge to seek martyrdom through provoking Islam was widespread, not isolated