Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know: What Everyone Needs to Know R Afsaruddin Asma
Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know: What Everyone Needs to Know R Afsaruddin Asma The word "jihad" is everywhere in the global media. This usage overwhelmingly colors popular discourse about Islam…
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Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know: What Everyone Needs to Know R Afsaruddin Asma
The word "jihad" is everywhere in the global media. This usage overwhelmingly colors popular discourse about Islam and Muslims and it has resulted in highly simplistic, distorted, and ahistorical understandings of the concept of jihad. It generally appears in the context of violence waged against the West by militants in or from Muslim-majority societies.
This book addresses the great need for a discussion of jihad that explores its various dimensions without fear-mongering or sensationalism. For most Muslims, jihad refers to the continuous human struggle to promote and implement what is morally good and noble in all walks of life, as well as to resist and prevent what is morally wrong and unjust. Here it is examined from multiple perspectives: scriptural, theological, moral and ethical, legal and socio-political.
Asma Afsaruddin looks at the key questions about jihad and provides