Jihad is often assumed to refer to armed combat and Muslim martyrdom is understood to be invariably of the military kind. By canvassing a more diverse range of texts - Qur'an, tafsir hadith, edifying and hortatory literature - this book recuperates a more nuanced and multifacete…
Jihad is often assumed to refer to armed combat and Muslim martyrdom is understood to be invariably of the military kind. By canvassing a more diverse range of texts - Qur'an, tafsir hadith, edifying and hortatory literature - this book recuperates a more nuanced and multifacete…
"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 …
"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 …
"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 …
ʿĀʾisha bt. Ṭalḥa (d. c.110/728) was the daughter of the well-known Companion of the prophet Muḥammad, Ṭalḥa b. ʿUbaydallāh al-Taymī and Umm Kulthūm, the daughter of Abū Bakr. Thus she was also the niece of her famous namesake, ʿĀʾisha bt. Abī Bakr (d. 58/678), the wife of the P…
ʿĀʾisha bt. Abī Bakr (d. 58/678), wife of the prophet Muḥammad and daughter of Abū Bakr (d. 13/634), the first caliph, is arguably the most famous woman of early Islam and also its most controversial. 1. Her life and importance She was born in Mecca around 614 C.E. to Abū Bakr b…
Religious authority in Islamic thought, both Sunnī and Shīʿī, is based primarily on the possession of ʿilm (knowledge) of religious matters, and, to a certain extent, knowledge of relevant worldly affairs, combined with irreproachable personal piety. The authority of the prophet…
Asmāʾ bt. Abī Bakr (d. 73/693) was the daughter of the first caliph Abū Bakr b. Abī Quḥāfa and his wife Qutayla bt. ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā, and the elder half-sister of ʿĀʾisha bt. Abī Bakr (d. 58/678), the wife of the Prophet. Asmāʾ accepted Islam early on, in Mecca and personally gave …