Martyrdom in Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Martyrdom in Islam write by David Cook. This book was released on 2007-01-15. Martyrdom in Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher description
Christian Martyrs Under Islam
Christian Martyrs Under Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christian Martyrs Under Islam write by Christian C. Sahner. This book was released on 2020-03-31. Christian Martyrs Under Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A look at the developing conflicts in Christian-Muslim relations during late antiquity and the early Islamic era How did the medieval Middle East transform from a majority-Christian world to a majority-Muslim world, and what role did violence play in this process? Christian Martyrs under Islam explains how Christians across the early Islamic caliphate slowly converted to the faith of the Arab conquerors and how small groups of individuals rejected this faith through dramatic acts of resistance, including apostasy and blasphemy. Using previously untapped sources in a range of Middle Eastern languages, Christian Sahner introduces an unknown group of martyrs who were executed at the hands of Muslim officials between the seventh and ninth centuries CE. Found in places as diverse as Syria, Spain, Egypt, and Armenia, they include an alleged descendant of Muhammad who converted to Christianity, high-ranking Christian secretaries of the Muslim state who viciously insulted the Prophet, and the children of mixed marriages between Muslims and Christians. Sahner argues that Christians never experienced systematic persecution under the early caliphs, and indeed, they remained the largest portion of the population in the greater Middle East for centuries after the Arab conquest. Still, episodes of ferocious violence contributed to the spread of Islam within Christian societies, and memories of this bloodshed played a key role in shaping Christian identity in the new Islamic empire. Christian Martyrs under Islam examines how violence against Christians ended the age of porous religious boundaries and laid the foundations for more antagonistic Muslim-Christian relations in the centuries to come.
Striving in the Path of God
Striving in the Path of God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Striving in the Path of God write by Asma Afsaruddin. This book was released on 2013-05-07. Striving in the Path of God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In popular and academic literature, jihad is predominantly assumed to refer exclusively to armed combat, and martyrdom in the Islamic context is understood to be invariably of the military kind. This perspective, derived mainly from legal texts, has led to discussions of jihad and martyrdom as concepts with fixed, universal meanings divorced from the socio-political circumstances in which they have been deployed through the centuries. Asma Afsaruddin studies in a more holistic manner the range of significations that can be ascribed to the term jihad from the earliest period to the present and historically contextualizes the competing discourses that developed over time. Many assumptions about the military jihad and martyrdom in Islam are thereby challenged and deconstructed. A comprehensive interrogation of varied sources reveals early and multiple competing definitions of a word that in combination with the phrase fi sabil Allah translates literally to "striving in the path of God." Contemporary radical Islamists have appropriated this language to exhort their cadres to armed political opposition, which they legitimize under the rubric of jihad. Afsaruddin shows that the multivalent connotations of jihad and shahid recovered from the formative period lead us to question the assertions of those who maintain that belligerent and militant interpretations preserve the earliest and only authentic understanding of these two key terms. Retrieval of these multiple perspectives has important implications for our world today in which the concepts of jihad and martyrdom are still being fiercely debated.
Jihad and Martyrdom
Jihad and Martyrdom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jihad and Martyrdom write by David Cook. This book was released on 2010. Jihad and Martyrdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jihad and martyrdom in Islam have an ever-greater relevance in today's world, topics which are called upon to teach with increasing frequency and areas around which there is also ignorance and about the historical meaning. This set provides a survey of the breadth of scholarly opinion across 75 journal articles which will go towards dispelling myth and unravelling the historical interpretations of jihadism and matyrology in many parts of the world.
Martyrdom in Modern Islam
Martyrdom in Modern Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Martyrdom in Modern Islam write by Meir Hatina. This book was released on 2014-04-28. Martyrdom in Modern Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An in-depth analysis of modern Islamic martyrdom and its various interpretations, positing martyrdom as a vital component of contemporary identity politics and power struggles.
