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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Afsaruddin, Asma (1958-....)
Titre(s) : Striving in the path of God [Texte imprimé] : Jihād and Martyrdom in Islamic thought / Asma Afsaruddin
Publication : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, cop. 2013
Description matérielle : x-370 p. ; 25 cm
Comprend : Striving "for," "in," and "in the path of" God: Qurʼanic imperatives in the Meccan
period ; Fighting in the path of God: a religious and moral obligation i ; The
ethics of fighting, refraining from fighting, and peacemaking ; Dying in the path
of God: exegeses of martyrdom ; Jihad and martyrdom compared in early and later ḥadith
literature ; Jihad and martyrdom in early and late treatises on the merits of jihad
; The excellences of patient forbearance: counter-narratives on striving in the path
of God ; Modern and contemporary debates on jihad and martyrdom I: political and
militant perspectives ; Modern and contemporary debates on jihad and martyrdom II:
privileging history, context, and polysemy ; Conclusion: analysis of texts: a summation.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-355) and index
"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."--Publisher's website
Sujet(s) : Djihad
Vie religieuse -- Islam
Martyre -- Islam
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199730933 (hardcover) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0199730938 (hardcover) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43634752p
Notice n° :
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