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Afsaruddin, Asma

 
9780190647322: Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know
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ISBN 10 : 0190647329 ISBN 13 : 9780190647322
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2022

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

Asma Afsaruddin 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 Contemporary Issues in Islam (2015); the award-winning Striving in the Path of God: Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought (2013); and The First Muslims: History and Memory (2008). She was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2005 and inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars in 2019.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0190647329
ISBN 13 
9780190647322
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
Oxford University Press
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ISBN 10 :  0190647310 ISBN 13 :  9780190647315
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2022
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