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Jihad beyond Islam

Book by Gabriele Marranci; Berg, 2006

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Jihad

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

and al-jihad al-akbar was divided into jihad al-qalb (jihad of the heart), jihad al-kalima (jihad of the tongue) and jihad bi-al-yad (jihad of the hand). Aljihad al-asghar maintained its military connotation and was categorized...
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Jihad: The Origin of Holy War in Islam

Book by Reuven Firestone; Oxford University Press, 1999

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Jihad--History, War--Religious Aspects--Islam

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...self. There are, therefore, many kinds of jihad, and most have nothing to do with warfare. " Jihad of the heart," for example, denotes struggle...against ones own sinful inclinations, while " jihad of the tongue" requires speaking on behalf...
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Islamic Radicalism and Global Jihad

Book by Devin R. Springer, James L. Regens, David N. Edger; Georgetown University Press, 2009

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Islamic Fundamentalism, Jihad, Qaida (Organization), Terrorism--Religious Aspects--Islam

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...philosophical foundations of the global jihad. In the context of this study, Islamic...radical Islamic groups. Although the term jihad has become linked to terrorism, it is...a religious obligation. This spiritual jihad, or jihad bil-nafs , is seen by most...
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Jihad in Islamic History: Doctrines and Practice

Book by Michael Bonner; Princeton University Press, 2006

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Jihad--History, War--Religious Aspects--Islam

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...They also change with distance and time. Jihad refers, first of all, to a body of legal...usually include a section called Book of Jihad . Sometimes these sections have different...hadith; see chapter 3) contain a Book of Jihad , or something like it. Some Islamic jurists...
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Just War and Jihad: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on War and Peace in Western and Islamic Traditions

Book by John Kelsay, James Turner Johnson; Greenwood Press, 1991

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Jihad--Congresses, Just War Doctrine--Congresses, War (International Law)--Congresses, War--Religious Aspects--Christianity--Congresses, War--Religious Aspects--Islam--Congresses

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...and the military objectives, diverge from the jihad model. Perhaps a closer analogy to the jihad lies in the fight of the mujahidin in the Afghan...Palestinian cause, Muslims frequently appeal to jihad . In Muslims vocabulary jihad is associated...

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Laskar Jihad and the Political Position of Conservative Islam in Indonesia

Journal article by Michael Davis; Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 24, 2002

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Indonesia--Religious aspects, Islam--Social aspects, Java (Programming language)--Religious aspects, Java--Religious aspects, Jihad--Social aspects

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...notwithstanding, Laskar Jihads insistence that their jihad is based primarily...convergence of Laskar Jihads agenda with that...While Laskar Jihad has succeeded in...Interview with Laskar Jihad spokesmen, 29...One of Laskar Jihads training camps...
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Jihad Then and Now

Journal article by Lee Harris; Policy Review, 2006

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Books--Book reviews, The Legacy of Jihad (Book)--Book reviews

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...the Islamic notion of jihad and that the Crusades were simply jihads directed by Christians...wars. But was Islamic jihad the same thing that...various historical jihads and provides overwhelming...unleashed by Islamic jihad that, to our modern...
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The Concept and Practice of Jihad in Islam

Journal article by Michael G. Knapp; Parameters, Vol. 33, 2003

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Bin Laden, Osama--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Islam, Islam and politics--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Islam and politics--History, Islam--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Islam--History, Islamic Jihad Organization--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Jihad--Analysis, Terrorists--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Terrorists--Religious aspects

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The Concept and Practice of Jihad in Islam. by Michael G. Knapp...Messenger, and Muslims.... The jihad is an individual duty if the...where it is being put to use in jihads against their own not-Islamic...Limited The thrust of the entire jihad tradition which Islamic radicals...
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Philosophy and Jihad: Al-Farabi on Compulsion to Happiness

Journal article by Michael J. Sweeney; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 60, 2007

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Farabi, Abu Nasr al---Works, Islamic philosophy--Analysis, Jihad--Analysis, Jihad--Religious aspects, Philosophy, Islamic--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

Philosophy and Jihad: Al-Farabi on Compulsion to Happiness...and on occasion even uses the term "jihad" or derivatives from it. (1) Although...devoted to al-Farabis understanding of jihad, one can identify three distinct positions...
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Laskar Jihad: Islam, Militancy, and the Quest for Identity in Post-New Order Indonesia

Journal article by Zachary Abuza; Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 29, 2007

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Books--Book reviews, Laskar Jihad: Islam, Militancy, and the Quest for Identity in Post-New Order Indonesia (Book)--Book reviews

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...to justify the Laskar Jihads jihad in the Malukus (pp...government allowed Laskar Jihad to continue the training...complicity in supporting Laskar Jihads activities in Malukus...Hasan argues that Laskar Jihad added little to the battlefield...

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Jihad and Just War

Magazine article by James Turner Johnson; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, June 2002

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Islamic theology--Analysis, Jihad--Analysis, Just war doctrine--Analysis, War--Moral and ethical aspects

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Jihad and just war by James Turner Johnson In February...fatwa, or religious ruling, calling for jihad against "the crusader-Zionist alliance...appeal to the Islamic tradition of defensive jihad by which every Muslim is obligated, as an...
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Jihad and Holy War

Magazine article by Jean Flori; Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 110, Fall 2003

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Islam and politics--Analysis, Islam and politics--Military aspects, Islam--Analysis, Islam--Military aspects, Jihad--Analysis, Jihad--Religious aspects, War--Religious aspects

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...as a religion of peace, and jihad as an "effort in the ways...indeed true that the word "jihad" does not always mean violent...included in nearly two thirds of jihads occurrences in the Koran. In other words, jihad is not equivalent to holy war...
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Cracks in the Jihad: Al Qaeda and the Taliban Are at Odds; and Even Internet Jihadis Are Taking Fewer Cues from Osama Bin Laden. Yet It Is Only Growing More Difficult to Defeat the Global Jihad

Magazine article by Thomas Rid; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 34, Winter 2010

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Al-Qaeda--Social aspects, Islamic fundamentalism--Military aspects, Islamic fundamentalism--Social aspects, Islamic identity--Military aspects, Islamic militants--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Islamic militants--Membership, Jihad--Social aspects

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...eventually capitulated. But jihad in the 21st century...be defeated. But the jihads new weakness is also...Muslim world. The global jihad, as a result, has been...the United States was jihad because it killed Americans...thus further damaging jihads status in the eyes of...
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The Real Meaning of Jihad

Magazine article by Martin Kramer; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 26, Summer 2002

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Jihad--Analysis, War and religion--Analysis

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The real meaning of Jihad by Martin Kramer Jihad is perhaps the most loaded word in the lexicon of Islams relations...for suicide bombings, have even named themselves "Islamic Jihad." And Osama bin Ladin described his terror campaign as a jihad...
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Jihad V. McWorld

Magazine article by Gareth Cook; Washington Monthly, Vol. 27, November 1995

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Books--Reviews, Jihad v. McWorld (Book)--Reviews

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Jihad v. McWorld by Gareth Cook Benjamin Barber...seams? This is the driving question behind Jihad vs. McWorld, an important new book by Rutgers...rapidly growing world consumer culture, and "Jihad retribalization," splintering once-settled...

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John Brennan: Witless for the Defense; Jihad Means One Thing - Violence

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), July 13, 2010

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Jihad, Khomeini, Ruhollah, Ayatollah, Violence

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

John Brennan: Witless for the Defense; Jihad Means One Thing - Violence. Byline: Andrew Bostom...leads to this question, and requisite answer, When is jihad not jihad? - When it is bloodless, spiritual struggle. Mr...
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THE JIHAD ROADSHOW; Public Stonings, Amputations for Criminals and the Flag of Islam over No 10. That's the Message Being Peddled by This Fanatic as He Travels Round Britain Recruiting Followers as Young as 11. and, Guess What? YOU'RE Footing the Bill

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 18, 2009

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Jihad

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THE JIHAD ROADSHOW; Public Stonings, Amputations...prepare the ground for his global Islamic jihad. Funded by the taxpayer -- he claims benefits...S. intelligence dubs Britains Generation Jihad. Richard Dart is one of Choudarys proteges...
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Islamic Jihad and Academic Freedom

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 1, 2002

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Islamic Jihad Organization, University of South Florida

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Islamic Jihad and academic freedom Byline: THE WASHINGTON...returned to the Middle East to head up Islamic Jihad. Or maybe it was the reference to another...more convincing - in which he declared, "Jihad is our path! Victory to Islam! Death to...
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United Shariah of America? Survey Shows Most U.S. Mosques Promote Jihad

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), June 8, 2011

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Islamic law, Jihad, Mosques

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Survey Shows Most U.S. Mosques Promote Jihad. Byline: Frank Gaffney Jr., THE WASHINGTON...that incubate the Islamic holy war called jihad. If this revelation is not exactly news...decades-long, stealthy civilization jihad in this country, it almost certainly will...
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Jihad Jane and Deadly Headley: A Couple of Conspirators

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 22, 2010

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Headley, David, Jihad

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Jihad Jane and Deadly Headley: A Couple of Conspirators...week training "on the merits of waging jihad" or holy war, states the plea agreement...nickname such as the one she gave herself -- "Jihad Jane" -- and no one from the Justice Department...

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Jihad

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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JIHAD see Islam . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Zawahiri, Ayman Al-

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...with the Muslim Brotherhood and joined the Egyptian Islamic Jihad after it was founded in 1973. Arrested in connection with the...1992 to 1996, he became head (1993) of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, which conducted an Islamist terror campaign against the Egyptian...
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Intifada

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...has had the character more of a guerrilla war and has been marked by the use of suicide bomb attacks by Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, and elements of the PLO and by Israeli attacks on official Palestinian installations and reoccupation of areas Israeli forces...
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Qutb, Sayyid

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...similar to that before Muhammad received the Quran. To restore "true" Islam and revive world civilization Qutb calls for a jihad by a vanguard of Muslims who are willing to suffer martyrdom, as he did when he remained in Nassers Egypt and attacked its...
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Muslim Brotherhood

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Brotherhood has given rise to a number of more militant and violent organizations, such as Hamas , Gamaa al-Islamiya, and Islamic Jihad. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University...

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