Jihad in classical and modern Islam : a reader
Rudolph Peters (Author)
Jihad or ""Holy War"" is very much alive in the Islamic world, and plays a prominent political role. Western observers usually associate jihad with fanaticism, while Islamists emphasize its mission as a crusade against drugs and other societal scourges.
Print Book, English, 2005
2nd edition, updated and expanded View all formats and editions
Markus Wiener Publishers, Princeton, NJ, 2005
ix, 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9781558763814, 9781558763593, 1558763813, 1558763597
266072511
Jihad, an introduction
The prophet's lessons on conduct in war
Exhortations to jihad
The legal doctrine of jihad
The religious and moral doctrine of jihad
Jihad and war propaganda
A modernist interpretation of jihad
The doctrine of jihad in modern Islam
The relevance of the jihad doctrine in Sadat's Egypt
The notion of jihad at the turn of the 21st century
"With a new chapter on the Jihad at the turn of the 21st century."