Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know Audiobook by Asma Afsaruddin

01/03/2022 7h 26min
Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know Audiobook by Asma Afsaruddin

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ID: 567544

Title: Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know

Author: Asma Afsaruddin

Narrator: Linda Jones

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:26:09

Language: English

Release date: 03-01-22

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Non-Fiction, Islam, Law

Summary:

The word 'jihad' is everywhere in the global media. It generally appears in the context of violence waged against the West by militants in or from Muslim-majority societies. This usage overwhelmingly colors popular discourse about Islam and Muslims and it has resulted in highly simplistic, distorted, and ahistorical understandings of the concept of jihad. For most Muslims, jihad refers to the continuous human struggle to promote and implement what is morally good and noble in all walks of life, as well as to resist and prevent what is morally wrong and unjust. This book addresses the great need for a discussion of jihad that explores its various dimensions without fear-mongering or sensationalism. Here it is examined from multiple perspectives: scriptural, theological, moral and ethical, legal and socio-political. Asma Afsaruddin looks at the key questions about jihad and provides concise yet thorough answers. Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know provides a historically-grounded, scholarly yet accessible treatment of the meanings of jihad from the formative period of Islam until the contemporary period.

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