The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period : Ibn ʿAsākir of Damascus (1105-1176) and His Age, with an Edition and Translation of Ibn ʿAsākir’s The Forty Hadiths for Inciting Jihad, by Suleiman A. Mourad and James E. Lindsay

Year 2013, Volume: 4 Issue: 1, 110 - 114, 11.12.2013

Harald Motzki

https://doi.org/10.12730/13091719.2013.41.77

Abstract

First paragraph: Jihād – striving or fighting “in the path of God” – and its aims, legitimation, and practices are topics that in the course of history occupied the minds of Muslims and non-Muslims time and again. The resurgence of jihād since the 1980s has again aroused broad interest in the topic and led to a wave of publications, including studies that deal with the historical aspects of the phenomenon.

The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period : Ibn ʿAsākir of Damascus (1105-1176) and His Age, with an Edition and Translation of Ibn ʿAsākir’s The Forty Hadiths for Inciting Jihad, by Suleiman A. Mourad and James E. Lindsay

Abstract

First paragraph:

Jihād – striving or fighting “in the path of God” – and its aims, legitimation, and practices are topics that in the course of history occupied the minds of Muslims and non-Muslims time and again. The resurgence of jihād since the 1980s has again aroused broad interest in the topic and led to a wave of publications, including studies that deal with the historical aspects of the phenomenon.

Keywords

Sunni Jihad Ideology, Crusader Period, Ibn ʿAsākir of Damascus