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The Stated Motivations for the Early Islamic Expansion (622-641) - A Critical Revision of Muslims' Traditional Portrayal of the Arab Raids and Conquests (Hardcover, New edition)
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The Stated Motivations for the Early Islamic Expansion (622-641) - A Critical Revision of Muslims' Traditional Portrayal of the Arab Raids and Conquests (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Crosscurrents: New Studies on the Middle East, 3
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What motivated the early Islamic conquests? Did the Arabs fight for
Allah, or for wealth and dominance? Were the conquerors principally
Arabs, or specifically Muslims? Were the Muslim believers motivated
by religious zeal to proclaim Islam to the non-Muslims?
Consequently, was Islam spread by the sword? This is a question
that has crucial implications today. The Stated Motivations for the
Early Islamic Expansion (622-641) extensively analyzes the earliest
Arabic Muslim sources to answer these and other questions. It
relies on over 400 works, including primary sources written by more
than 90 medieval Muslim authors, Sunni, Shiite, Sufi, and
Mu'tazilite. It explores how medieval Muslim writers represented
the early Arab leaders, and how much we can trust their reports. It
concludes with an examination of the Qur'an's commands regarding
fighting and armed jihad, and questions what later commentators
suggest about fighting the non-Muslims, specifically how radical
Muslim interpretations match or violate Islam's sacred scripture.
This is the first scholarly analysis to focus on the stated
motivations for the early Islamic expansion in the first two
decades of Islam. It is a valuable resource for courses on Muslim
history, introduction to Islam, Islamic origins and texts,
classical and modern Islamic thought, Muhammad's biography, Islamic
Caliphates, Muslim-Christian relations, Jews in the Muslim world,
Middle Eastern history, and world history. In the age of ISIS,
Qaeda, and Boko Haram, this book reflects on how historiographical
accounts can inform today's multi-cultural and multi-religious
societies on complex relations, mutual respect, and religious
coexistence.
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