[PDF.03bv] Jihad: The Origin of Holy War in Islam

Jihad: The Origin of Holy War in Islam

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 | #1518800 in Books |  Reuven Firestone |  2002-03-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.00 x.80 x9.10l,.71 | File type: PDF | 208 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| A great contribution to a massive topic|By Lee L.|The goal of Reuven Firestone's Jihad is to examine and explore the origins of the concept of holy war within Islam. He does so by looking at literature from the Qur'an, Hadith, and Sira. Firestone claims that the traditional evolutionary explanation for explaining jihad is not sufficient and that this concept did not evolve in| ||"Reuven Firestone has produced a book that should have been produced a long ago"--Journal of Near Eastern Studies||"In this book, Firestone had presented an attractive thsis which very much deserves to be read and debated by all who are interested in

While there exists no evidence to date that the indigenous inhabitants of Arabia knew of holy war prior to Islam, holy war ideas and behaviors appear already among Muslims during the first generation. This book focuses on why and how such a seemingly radical development took place. Basing his hypothesis on evidence from the Qur'an and early Islamic literary sources, Firestone locates the origin of Islamic holy war and traces its evolution as a response to the changes aff...

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