The reinvention of jihÄd in twelfth-century al-ShÄm
This thesis examines the reinvention of jihÄd ideology in twelfthâcentury alâShÄm. In modern scholarship there is a tendency to speak of a revival of jihÄd in the twelfth century, but discussion of this revival has been dominated by study of the practice of jihÄd rather than of the ideology of jihÄd. This thesis addresses this imbalance by studying two twelfthâcentury Damascene works: the KitÄb alâjihÄd (Book of JihÄd) of ÊżAlÄ" b. áčŹÄhir alâSulamÄ" (d. 500/1106), and the alâArbaÊżĆ"n áž"adÄ"than fÄ" alâáž"athth Êżala alâjihÄd (Forty Hadiths for Inciting JihÄd) of AbĆ" alâQÄsim Ibn ÊżAsÄkir (d. 571/1176). Through discussion of these texts, this thesis sheds light on twelfthâcentury perceptions of jihÄd by asking what their authors meant when they referred to jihÄd, and how their perceptions of jihÄd related to the broader Islamic discourse on jihÄd. A holistic approach is taken to these works; they are discussed not only in the context of the 'master narrative' of jihÄd, wherein juristic sources have been privileged over other nonâlegal genres and corpora, but also in the context of the Sufi discourse of jihÄd alânafs, and the earliest traditions on jihÄd which
Goudie, Kenneth Alexander
Crusading ; al-Sulami ; ?Ali b. ?ahir ; Jihad ; Jihad al-nafs ; Ibn al-Mubarak ; ?Abd Allah ; Ibn ?Asakir ; Abu al-Qasim ; Counter-crusade ; al-Sham ; Damascus ; DS97.3G78
The reinvention of jihÄd in twelfth-century al-ShÄm. This thesis examines the reinvention of jihÄd ideology in twelfthâcentury alâShÄm. In modern scholarship there is a tendency to speak of a revival of jihÄd in the twelfth century, but discussion of this revival has been dominated by study of the practice of jihÄd rather than of the ideology of jihÄd. This thesis addresses this imbalance by studying two twelfthâcentury Damascene works: the KitÄb alâjihÄd (Book of JihÄd) of ÊżAlÄ" b. áčŹÄhir alâSulamÄ" (d. 500/1106), and the alâArbaÊżĆ"n áž"adÄ"than fÄ" alâáž"athth Êżala alâjihÄd (Forty Hadiths for Inciting JihÄd) of AbĆ" alâQÄsim Ibn ÊżAsÄkir (d. 571/1176). Through discussion of these texts, this thesis sheds light on twelfthâcentury perceptions of jihÄd by asking what their authors meant when they referred to jihÄd, and how their perceptions of jihÄd related to the broader Islamic discourse on jihÄd. A holistic approach is taken to these works; they are discussed not only in the context of the 'master narrative' of jihÄd, wherein juristic sources have been privileged over other nonâlegal genres and corpora, but also in the context of the Sufi discourse of jihÄd alânafs, and the earliest traditions on jihÄd which
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