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

Name: Striving in the Path of God: Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought
Brand: Oxford University Press
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9780199730933

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In popular and academic literature, jihad is predominantly assumed to refer to armed combat, and Muslim martyrdom is understood to be invariably of the military kind. This perspective, derived mainly from legal texts, has led to discussions of jihad and martyrdom primarily as concepts with fixed, universal meanings divorced from the socio-political circumstances in which they have been deployed through time. This book, however, studies in a more holistic manner the range of significations that can be ascribed to the term jihad from the earliest period to the contemporary period against the backdrop of specific historical and political circumstances that frequently mediated the meanings of this critical term. Instead of privileging the juridical literature, the book canvasses a more diverse array of texts - Qur'an, tafsir, hadath, edifying and hortatory literature -- to recuperate a more nuanced and multifaceted understanding of both jihad and martyrdom through time. As a result, many conventional and monochromatic assumptions about the military jihad and martyrdom are challenged and undermined. Asma Afsaruddin argues that the notion of jihad as primarily referring to armed combat is in fact relatively late. A comprehensive interrogation of varied sources, she shows, reveals early and multiple competing definitions of a word that translates literally to "striving on the path of God."

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Historically-grounded discussion of the varied meanings of jihad

Close, diachronic study of texts from different genres not usually consulted on this topic

This perspective, derived mainly from legal texts, has led to discussions of jihad and martyrdom as concepts with fixed

Contemporary radical Islamists have appropriated this language to exhort their cadres to armed political opposition

Afsaruddin shows that the multivalent connotations of jihad and shahid recovered from the formative period

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Brand: Oxford University Press
Model: 9780199730933
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0199730938
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Middle East
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 27 June 2013
Listed Since: 31 October 2012

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