Jihad

Since the Islamic resurgence began to make news, the Islamic idea of holy war, or "jihad", has been the subject of tremendous media attention - much of it sensationalistic. This study attempts to discover where and when the idea of jihad originated, and to trace its early development.

Stimulating reading for students and scholars of religion, Islam, the Middle East, and of medieval history generally

Autorentext
Reuven Firestone is Professor of Judaism and Islam and Director of the Graduate School of Judaic Studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.



Klappentext
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 affecting the new community of Muslims in its transition from ancient Arabian culture to the religious civilization of Islam.

Zusammenfassung
Reuven Firestone traces the origin and evolution of Islamic holy war through the changes affecting the new community of Muslims in their transition from ancient Arabian culture to the religious civilization of Islam. He demonstrates that, at base, Islamic holy war is a product of the mixture of old Arabian culture with innovations engendered by the introduction of monotheism.

Inhalt
Introduction
I. Imagining Arabia
1: The Middle East and Holy War
2: The Pre-Islamic World
II. The Qur'an and its Interpretation
3: The Qur'an: The Traditional Reading and its Inherent Weakness
4: The Qur'an: A New Reading
III. The Oral Tradition
5: The Prophetic Sunna
6: The Sira
7: From Mundane War to Holy War

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