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Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know: What Everyone Needs to Know® - Hardcover

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Afsaruddin, Asma

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9780190647315: Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know: What Everyone Needs to Know®
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ISBN 10: 0190647310 ISBN 13: 9780190647315
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2022

Synopsis

The word "jihad" is ubiquitous 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 a highly reductive, distorted, and ahistorical understanding of the concept of jihad. Asma Afsaruddin looks at the key questions about jihad and provides concise yet thorough answers. Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know ® provides a historically-grounded, scholarly yet accessible treatment of jihad that explores its various dimensions from the formative period of Islam until the contemporary period.

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About the Author

Asma Afsaruddin is Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author and editor of eight books, including Contemporary Issues in Islam (2015); the award-winning Striving in the Path of God: Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought (2013); and The First Muslims: History and Memory (2008). She was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2005 and inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars in 2019.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0190647310
ISBN 13 
9780190647315
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
220
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