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Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know - What Everyone Needs to Know (R) (Paperback)
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Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know - What Everyone Needs to Know (R) (Paperback)
Series: What Everyone Needs To Know
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You Save R75 (19%)
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The word "jihad" is everywhere in the global media. It generally
appears in the context of violence waged against the West by
militants in or from Muslim-majority societies. 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. 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. This book
addresses the great need for a discussion of jihad that explores
its various dimensions without fear-mongering or sensationalism.
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
concise yet thorough answers. Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know
(R) provides a historically-grounded, scholarly yet accessible
treatment of the meanings of jihad from the formative period of
Islam until the contemporary period.
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