[PDF.65qk] Striving in the Path of God: Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought

Striving in the Path of God: Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought

[PDF.aa65] Striving in the Path of God: Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought

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 | #611292 in Books |  Oxford University Press, USA |  2013-06-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.40 x1.40 x9.40l,1.40 | File type: PDF | 384 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| An original and informed discussion of a vital topic|By Michael Crown|If you wish to read only one book on jihad and martyrdom, then read this for its comprehensive, painstakingly researched historical treatment of both topics, based on primary sources. The book can be dense in parts because of the close reading of texts, but if you persevere till the end, the effort will be i| ||"Asma Afsaruddin's Striving in the Path of God is a major accomplishment in the study of non-legal jihad literature Afsaruddin is able to write about an astonishing range of material over centuries with subtlety and erudition, taking great care to co

In popular and academic literature, jihad is predominantly assumed to refer exclusively to armed combat, and martyrdom in the Islamic context is understood to be invariably of the military kind. This perspective, derived mainly from legal texts, has led to discussions of jihad and martyrdom as concepts with fixed, universal meanings divorced from the socio-political circumstances in which they have been deployed through the centuries. Asma Afsaruddin st...

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