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Twenty-first century Jihad : law, society and military action /
The term 'jihad' has come to be used as a byword for fanaticism and Islam's allegedly implacable hostility towards the West. But, like other religious and political concepts, jihad has multiple resonances and associations, its meaning shifting over time and from place to place.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.,
2015.
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| Colección: | Library of modern religion ;
38. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; About the Contributors; Introduction Contextualising Twenty-First Century Jihad; Prologue A Short History of Jihad; Part I: Historical Antecedents of Contemporary Jihad; 1. Divine Authority and Territorial Entitlement in the Hebrew Bible and the Qur'an; 2. Early Competing Views on Jihad and Martyrdom; 3. Definitions and Narratives of Martyrdom in Sunni Hadith Literature; 4. The Non-Military Aspects of Kitab al-Jihad; 5. Responses to the Almoravid Intervention in al-Andalus; 6. The 'Greater' Jihad in Classical Islam
- Part II: Jihad in Modern Politics and Society7. Sectarian Violence as Jihad; 8. The New Qa'ida Wahhabists and the Revival of Jihad in Saudi Arabia; 9. The Muslim Brotherhood and Jihad; 10. Jihad Discourse in Egypt under Muhammad Mursi; 11. Jihad as a Form of Struggle in the Resistance to Apartheid in South Africa; 12. Women, Islam and War in Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories; 13. Al-Qa'ida, Jihad and the 'Surge'; Part III: Representations of Jihad in Modern Culture; 14. Yemen's Al-Qa'ida and Poetry as a Weapon of Jihad; 15. Poetics of Martyrdom in Early Modern Palestine
- 16. Hollywood and Jihad17. 'Jihadists of the Pen' in Victorian England; 18. The Appeal of Yusuf al-Qaradawi's Interpretation of Jihad; 19. What is New about Yusuf al-Qaradawi's Jihad?; Index