Jihad A History in Documents

ISBN-13: 9781558766099 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 282 str.

Rudolph Peters

Opis

This is an updated and expanded 2015 edition of a classic text on Muslim thinking about war and peace. The new edition includes a new introduction and translations of selected revelatory excerpts from ISIS texts about the treatment of POWs, guidelines on the "management of barbarity," fatwas in opposition to ISIS, and other key topics.

Spis treści

• Preface to the Third Edition, 2015
• Part I. Jihad in Classical and Modern Islam
• 1. JIHAD, AN INTRODUCTION
• 2. THE PROPHET’S LESSONS ON CONDUCT IN WAR: Ḥadiths on Jihad from the Ṣaḥiḥ of Muslim ibn Ḥajjåj
• 3. EXHORTATIONS TO JIHAD: Passages on Jihad and Martyrdom from Målik’s al-Muwaṭṭa’
• 4. THE LEGAL DOCTRINE OF JIHAD: The Chapter on Jihad from Averroes’ Legal Handbook al-Bidåya
• 5. THE RELIGIOUS AND MORAL DOCTRINE OF JIHAD: Ibn Taymiyya on Jihad
• 6. JIHAD AND WAR PROPAGANDA: The Ottoman Jihad Fatwa of November 11th, 1914
• 7. A MODERNIST INTERPRETATION OF JIHAD: Ma˙m¥d Shalt¥t’s Treatise Koran and Fighting
• 8. THE DOCTRINE OF JIHAD IN MODERN ISLAM
• 9. THE RELEVANCE OF THE JIHAD DOCTRINE IN SADAT’S EGYPT
• 10. JIHAD IN 21st CENTURY Egypt
• Part II. Jihad After 9/11
• 11. THE PRESENT GEOGRAPHY OF JIHAD
• a. Short survey of Jihadi Movements and States after 2005; Shabab,
• Boko Haram, Mali, Taliban; Impact of Arab Spring (Libya, Syria)
• b. Importance of Religion
• c. Why focus on IS
• 12. AL-QA`IDA AND IS
• a. Zawahiri and Zarqawi (Zawahiri’s Letter to Zarqawi)
• b. Idarat al-tawahhush by Naji
• c. Conflict Between al-Qa`ida and ISIS Regarding Rules of Jihad
• 13. THE RISE OF IS
• a. Factors of Success in Iraq and Syria; Foreign Mujahids; Publicity; Videos, Social Media
• b. Caliphate (Selections from the Address of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi), hijra; Building an Islamic State, hisba (Contrast with al-Qaìda) Eschatology, Apocalyps, Violence, Brutality
• 14. IS THEORY AND PRACTICE OF JIHAD
• a. Enemy; Takfir; Treason (Fatwas)
• b. Non-Muslims; dhimmi; (document ISIS dhimma contract)
• c. Defensive or Offensive Jihad
• d. Warfare: Civilians; Slavery (Document)
• e. (Document)
• 15. ANTI-IS POSITIONS
• Anti-Isis Fatwas
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements