Jihad
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Jihad: A Struggle Or Terrorism
By Abdul Rahman BahryOn Rabeul-Awal 8, 622 AD, Mohammad and Abo Bakr arrived at Qoba' village about 7 miles from Yasreb, and a couple days later Ali ben Abo Taleb and other companions joined them, they took a rest and built the first mosque.
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Jihad: The Ottomans and the Allies 1914–1922
By Andrew HydeGilbert, Churchill, p. 825. 10. Ibid., p. 826. 11. CAB23/31, ibid. 12. The Times, 18 September 1922. 13. The Times, 16 September 1922. 14. Gilbert, Churchill, p. 831. 15. The Times, 18 September 1922. 16. Ibid. 17. Gilbert, Churchill, p ...
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Jihad: The Origin of Holy War in Islam
By Reuven FirestoneThe particular expressions of holy war found in the Islamic world tend to be referred to in the West as jihad. The. Meaning. of. Jihād. The semantic meaning of the Arabic term jihad has no relation to holy war or even war in general.
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Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam
By Gilles KepelGilles Kepel explains how their jihad - or 'Holy Struggle' - aimed to establish a global Islamic state based solely on a strict interpretation of the Qur'an clashes with the values of Western democracies.
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Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia
By Ahmed RashidAhmed Rashid, whose masterful account of Afghanistan's Taliban regime became required reading after September 11, turns his legendary skills as an investigative journalist to five adjacent Central Asian Republics—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, ...
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Jihad: A South African Perspective
By Hussein SolomonIn August 2006, Shafique Ur-Rehman, a Pakistani, who married a South African woman and now residing in Cape Town ... he was then photographed and he was put back on a flight to South Africa without his passport having been returned.
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Jihad: The Siege of Vienna
By Blake LewisBased on the true stories of Eugene of Savoy, the Ottoman Grand Vizier Kara Mustafam, and the battle to save Vienna, "Jihad" weaves an intricate tale of glory and honor, duty and holy war that carries eerie echoes for the world today.
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Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia
By Ahmed RashidFrom the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Taliban" comes an in-depth look at an important and overlooked hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism.
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Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia
By Ahmed RashidExamines the rise of militant Islamic groups in five former Soviet republics in Central Asia, discussing the poverty, political corruption, and religious repression that have fueled their growth.
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Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia
By Ahmed, RashidAhmed Rashid, Who Masterfully Explained Afghanistan S Taliban Regime In His Previous Book, Here Turns His Skills As An Investigative Journalist To The Five Central Asian Republics Adjacent To Afghanistan That Were Part Of The Soviet Union ...
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Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia
By A. RashidJihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia
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Jihad: A Short History
By Terry BushellIt synthesizes in a single readable comprehensive volume the records of the contemporary chroniclers and the works of later historians, which mostly treat some tiny aspect of this enormous subject.
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Jihad: The Origin of Holy War in Islam
By Reuven FirestoneThis book focuses on why and how such a seemingly radical development took place.
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Jihad: From Qu'ran to Bin Laden
By Richard BonneyThis book locates the origin of jihad, traces its evolution as an idea, and provides an intellectual history of the concept of jihad in Islam as well as how it has been misapplied by modern Islamic terrorists and suicide bombers.
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JIHAD: The Mahdi Rebellion in the Sudan
By Murray FradinThe Book You MUST Read to Understand JIHAD and America's Challenge in the Middle East .
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Jihad: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
By Oxford University Press... Jihād and Shahādat: Struggle and Martyrdom in Islam. Houston, TX: Institute for Research and Islamic Studies, 1986. A collection of texts examining the relationship between these two concepts throughout Islamic history. ▻Buti, Muhammad ...
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Jihād: The Origin of Holy War in Islam
By Reuven FirestoneThe cauldron in which this mixture produced its new product was Medina, where various forces came together to produce the religious community of Muslims known as the Umma."--BOOK JACKET.
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Jihād: The Origin of Holy War in Islam
By Reuven Firestone"Firestone's historical reconstruction of Islamic holy war challenges the traditional "evolutionary theory" of war that was first established by medieval Muslim scholars and subsequently accepted uncritically by Western scholarship.