UID:
almahu_9949141041202882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9780755638024
Content:
"The concept of jihad holds a prominent place in Islamic thought and history. Beyond its spiritual meanings, the term has historically been associated with the sweeping Arab-Believers conquests of the 7-8th century BCE. But given advances in our understanding of the historicity and chronology of the Qur'an and early Islamic texts, is it correct to identify jihad and Islam with violent conquest? In this book, Marco Demichelis explores the history of the concept of jihad in the early proto-Islamic centuries (7-8th). Deploying an interdisciplinary approach which combines the hermeneutical study of the famous 'Verses of the Sword' within the Qur'an itself, with historical writing by Islamic chroniclers as well as non-Islamic sources, numismatics, epigraphical and architectural evidence, the book questions the relationship between the religious concept of jihad and the conquests. The book argues that Christian Byzantine Foederati forices who previously fought against the Persians may have had a formative effect on the later emergence of more bellicose rhetoric. In so doing, it calls into question assumptions about warlike attitudes inherent within Islamic doctrine, and reveals a more nuanced and complicated history of religious violence in the pre, proto and early Islamic period."--
Note:
Part 1. 1. The Arabs outside Arabia and before Islām ; 2. Ghazawāt and Futūḥ ; 3. The religious factor: When did an Islamic identity emerge? ; 4. Can we still consider the Futūḥ Islamic? -- Part 2. 5. Qur'ān, otherness and Jihād ; 6. The Qur'ān and militant violence in chronology ; 7. The evolutionary process of belligerency and the canonization of Jihād in early Islām.
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Also issued in print: I.B. Tauris, 2021.
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 0755637992
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780755637997
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780755638024
URL:
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