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Jihad in Premodern Sufi Writings (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Jihad in Premodern Sufi Writings (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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This book is the only comprehensive study in a European language
that analyzes how Sufi treatises, Qur'anic commentary, letters,
hagiography, and poetry define and depict jihad. Harry S. Neale
analyzes Sufi jihad discourse in Arabic and Persian texts composed
between the eleventh and seventeenth centuries, providing access to
many writings that have hitherto been unavailable in English.
Despite the diversity of practice within Sufism that existed
throughout the premodern period, Sufi writings consistently
promulgated a complementary understanding of jihad as both a
spiritual and military endeavor. Neale discusses the disparity
between contemporary academic Sufi jihad discourse in European
languages, which generally presents Sufis as peaceful mystics, and
contemporary academic writing in Arabic that depicts Sufis as
exemplary warriors who combine spiritual discipline with martial
zeal. The book concludes that historically, Sufi writings never
espoused a purely spiritual interpretation of the doctrine of
jihad.
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