The intensification and reorientation of Sunni jihad ideology in the Crusader period : Ibn ʻAsākir of Damascus (1105-1176) and his age, with an edition and translation of Ibn ʻAsākir's The forty hadiths for inciting jihad / by Suleiman A. Mourad, James E. Lindsay.
"The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period examines the important role of Ibn ʻAsākir, including his Forty Hadiths for Inciting Jihad, in the promotion of a renewed jihad ideology in twelfth-century Damascus as part of sultan Nūr al-Dīn's agenda to revivify Sunnism and fight, under the banner of jihad, Crusader and Muslim opponents. This jihad vision was exclusively centered on selected quranic verses and prophetic hadiths. Ibn ʻAsākir and other Sunni scholars in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Syria departed from the earlier scholarly focus on legal nuances and aversion to invoke jihad in intra-Muslim conflicts. They championed this intensification and reorientation of jihad ideology in mainstream Sunni scholarship, and gave it a lasting legacy."--Publisher's website.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Ibn ʻAsākir (1105-1176) : life and career
Jihad in early Islamic history : an overview
Jihad preaching in Damascus between the First and Second Crusades
Ibn ʻAsākir and the intensification and reorientation of Sunni jihad ideology in the twelfth century
The forty hadiths for inciting jihad
Ibn ʻAsākir's Forty hadiths and the intensification and reorientation of Sunni jihad ideology in thirteenth-century Damascus
The legacy of the intensification and reorientation of Sunni jihad ideology since the thirteenth century
Edition and translation of al-Arbaʻūn ḥadīthan fī al-ḥathth ʻalā al-jihād (The forty hadiths for inciting jihad).
Other title(s)
الاربعون حديثا في الحث على الجهاد : عن رسول الله، متصلة الاسناد /
النص بالعربية
الاربعون حديثا في الحث على الجهاد : عن رسول الله، متصلة الاسناد /
ISBN
9789004230668 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004230661 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004242791 (e-book)
9004242791 (e-book)
LCCN
2012041327
OCLC
820678649
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