Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know: What Everyone Needs to Know ®G - Softcover

Afsaruddin, Asma

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0190647329 ISBN 13: 9780190647322

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2022

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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.

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<br><strong>Asma Afsaruddin</strong> is Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author and editor of eight books, including <em>Contemporary Issues in Islam</em> (2015); the award-winning <em>Striving in the</em><br><em>Path of God: Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought</em> (2013); and <em>The First Muslims: History and Memory</em> (2008). She was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2005 and inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars in 2019.<br>

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0190647329
• ISBN 13: 9780190647322
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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