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Jihād: From Qur’ān to bin Laden

✍ Scribed by Richard Bonney (auth.)

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Leaves
614
Edition
1
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Holy war ideas appear among Muslims during the earliest manifestations of the religion. This book locates the origin of Jihad and traces its evolution as an idea with the intellectual history of the concept of Jihad in Islam as well as how it has been misapplied by modern Islamic terrorists and suicide bombers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Prologue....Pages 15-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Jihād in the Qur’ān and the Sunnah ....Pages 21-52
‘Jihād of the Sword’: Carrying the Message Abroad (Futūḥāt)....Pages 53-90
Jihād al-Nafs: The Spiritual Struggle....Pages 91-107
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Ibn Taymīyah and the Defensive Jihād: A Response to the Crusades and the Mongol Invasions....Pages 111-126
Jihād as State System: the Ottoman State, Ṣafavid Persia and the Mughal Empire....Pages 127-153
Muḥammad Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhāb and Wahhābism....Pages 154-171
Jihād in the Period of the Colonial Powers: Islamic Revivalism and Politicization of the Masses?....Pages 172-195
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
Sunnī Political Jihādists of the Twentieth Century: Mawdūdī, Ḥasan al-Bannā’, Quṭb....Pages 199-223
The Shī‘a Depiction of Jihād and Martyrdom (Shahādah)....Pages 224-265
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
The Crucible: The Palestine-Israel Dispute and its Consequences....Pages 269-319
Osama bin Laden: Global Jihād as ‘Fifth-Generation’ Warfare....Pages 320-394
Conclusion....Pages 395-423
Back Matter....Pages 424-594

✦ Subjects

History of the Middle East; History of Science; History of Religion; Asian Culture; Middle Eastern Culture; Middle Eastern Politics

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