By Jon Armajani
ISBN-10: 1405117427
ISBN-13: 9781405117425
Glossy Islamist hobbies presents a transparent and obtainable exam of the background, ideals and intent of Islamist teams and their grievances with the West and governments in the majority-Muslim global, whereas analyzing a few of these teams' visions for an international Islamic empire. a transparent and available textual content that examines the historical past, ideals and intent for violence rising from Islamist activities, whereas studying a few of these teams' visions for an international Islamic empireExamines Islamist grievances opposed to the West and smooth governments within the majority Muslim global, whereas delivering an outline of Islam's kinfolk with the West from the interval of the Crusades to the fashionable ageDiscusses the old improvement of Islamism in Egypt, the West financial institution and Gaza, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and AfghanistanExplains vintage Islamic understandings of jihad and Bin Laden's, al-Qaida's, and different Islamists interpretations of this conceptOffers an historic account of the formative courting among al-Qaida, different Islamists, and Islamic highbrow tendencies starting within the eighteenth centuryAppropriate for undergraduate and graduate scholars, in addition to basic readers
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111 While members of virtually all religious communities engage in the process of reflexivity, there are multiple examples of Islamists reflexively drawing on the sacred texts and history of Islam as they construct meanings related to their historic contexts. For example, when Islamists state their visions for an ideal Islamic state, they are reflexively drawing on the Quran, Hadith, Sunna, and aspects of Islamic history as they reconstruct their vision of that imagined past and then apply it to the present, while believing all along that the visions that they proclaim closely or exactly match aspects of the Islamic past.
241–71. 56 Fawaz A. Gerges, “What’s Behind the New Arab Momentum,” New York Times, March 15, 2002. 57 John L. Esposito, The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality? 3rd edn. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 45–73. 58 Emmanuel Sivan, Radical Islam: Medieval Theology and Modern Politics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985), 6–15. 59 David Cook, Understanding Jihad (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), 32–48. 60 Akbar S. B. Tauris, 1999), 8–11; Reuven Firestone, Jihad: The Origin of Holy War in Islam (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 16–18.
In any case, one persistent belief is that war can be mounted against unbelievers only after they have been called upon to become Muslims: Whenever the Prophet appointed a commander to an army or expedition, he would say: “When you meet your heathen enemies, summon them to three things. Accept whatsoever they agree to and refrain then from fighting them. Summon them to become Muslims. If they agree, accept their conversion. , Medina]. If they refuse that, let them know that then they are like the Muslim Bedouins and that they share only in the booty, when they fight together with the [other] Muslims.
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