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Striving in the Path of God Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought 1st Edition by Asma Afsaruddin ISBN 0199730938 9780199730933

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Author(s): Asma Afsaruddin
ISBN(s): 9780199730933, 0199730938
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.77 MB
Year: 2013
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0199730938

ISBN 13: 9780199730933 

Author: Asma Afsaruddin

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.”

Table of contents:

Introduction
Chapter 1: Striving “for,” “in,” and “in the path of” God: Qur’anic Imperatives in the Meccan Period
Chapter 2: Fighting in the Path of God: A Religious and Moral Obligation
Chapter 3: The Ethics of Fighting, Refraining from Fighting, and Peacemaking
Chapter 4: Dying in the Path of God: Exegeses of Martyrdom
Chapter 5: Jihad and Martyrdom Compared in Early and Later Hadith Literature
Chapter 6: Jihad and Martyrdom in Early and Late Treatises on the Merits of Jihad
Chapter 7: The Excellences of Patient Forbearance: Counter-Narratives on Striving in the Path of God
Chapter 8: Modern and Contemporary Debates on Jihad and Martyrdom I: Political and Militant Perspectives
Chapter 9: Modern and Contemporary Debates on Jihad and Martyrdom II: Privileging History, Context, and Polysemy
Conclusion: Analysis of Texts: A Summation

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