Jihad: a history in documents

Abstract

1 JIHAD, AN INTRODUCTION 1. - 2 THE PROPHET'S LESSONS ON CONDUCT IN WAR: Hadiths on Jihad from the Sahih of Musoim ibn Hajjaj 9. - 3 EXHORTATIONS TO JIHAD: Passages on Jihad and Martyrdom from Malik's al-Muwatta 19. - 4 THE LEGAL DOCTRINE OF JIHAD: The Chapter on Jihad from Averroes' Legal Handbook al-Bidaya 27. - 5 THE RELIGIOUS AND MORAL DOCTRINE OF JIHAD: Ibn Taymiyya on Jihad 43. - 6 JIHAD AND WAR PROPAGANDA: The Ottoman Jihad Fatwa of November 11th, 1914 55. - 7 A MODERNIST INTERPRETATION OF JIHAD: Mahmud Shaltut's Treatise Koran and Fighting 59. - 8 THE DOCTRINE OF JIHAD IN MODERN ISLAM 103. - 9 THE RELEVANCE OF THE JIHAD DOCTRINE IN SADAT'S EGYPT 149. - 10 THE NOTION OF JIHAD AT THE TURN OF THE 21st CENTURY 171. - 11 JIHAD AFTER 9/11 185