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What Everyone Needs To Know

Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know

What Everyone Needs to Know ®

Afsaruddin, Asma (Professor of Islamic Studies, Professor of Islamic Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington)

Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know

What Everyone Needs To Know

Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know

What Everyone Needs to Know ®

What Everyone Needs To Know: Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know

 

The word "jihad" is ubiquitous in the global media. It generally appears in the context of violence waged against the West by militants in or from Muslim-majority societies. This usage overwhelmingly colors popular discourse about Islam and Muslims and it has resulted in a highly reductive, distorted, and ahistorical understanding of the concept of jihad.


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Beschrijving What Everyone Needs To Know: Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know

The word "jihad" is everywhere in the global media. It generally appears in the context of violence waged against the West by militants in or from Muslim-majority societies. This usage overwhelmingly colors popular discourse about Islam and Muslims and it has resulted in highly simplistic, distorted, and ahistorical understandings of the concept of jihad. For most Muslims, jihad refers to the continuous human struggle to promote and implement what is morally good and noble in all walks of life, as well as to resist and prevent what is morally wrong and unjust. This book addresses the great need for a discussion of jihad that explores its various dimensions without fear-mongering or sensationalism. Here it is examined from multiple perspectives: scriptural, theological, moral and ethical, legal and socio-political. Asma Afsaruddin looks at the key questions about jihad and provides concise yet thorough answers. Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know® provides a historically-grounded, scholarly yet accessible treatment of the meanings of jihad from the formative period of Islam until the contemporary period.


ISBN
9780190647315
Pagina's
220
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What Everyone Needs To Know
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1
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Hardback
Taal
Engels
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OUP USA

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