Where is dár al-islám, and who defines its boundaries in the 21st century? In this book, Sarah Albrecht explores the variety of ways in which contemporary Sunni Muslim scholars, intellectuals, and activists reinterpret the Islamic legal tradition of dividing the world into dár a…
Where is dār al-islām , and who defines its boundaries in the 21st century? In Dār al-Islām Revisited. Territoriality in Contemporary Islamic Legal Discourse on Muslims in the West , Sarah Albrecht explores the variety of ways in which contemporary Sunni Muslim scholars, intelle…
The division of the world into dār al-Islām , the “territory of Islam,” and dār al-ḥarb , the “territory of war,” along with related concepts such as dār al-ʿahd , the “territory of treaty,” is a categorisation introduced by Islamic legal scholars in the first centuries of Islam…