Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of St Andrews, 2016), issued under title: The reinvention of jihād in twelfth-century al-Shām. Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-213) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Defining Jihād -- The Kitāb al-jihād of Abū al-Ḥasan al-Sulamī -- Ibn ʻAsākir's Involvement in Jihād -- The Jihād Propaganda of ʻIzz al-Dīn al-Sulamī -- Conclusion
Summary:
"In Reinventing Jihād, Kenneth A. Goudie provides a detailed examination of the development of jihād ideology from the Conquest of Jerusalem to the end of the Ayyūbids (c. 492/1099-647/1249). By analysing the writings of three scholars - Abū al Ḥasan al Sulamī (d. 500/1106), Ibn ʻAsākir (d. 571/1176), and ʻIzz al-Dīn al-Sulamī (d. 660/1262) - Reinventing Jihād demonstrates that the discourse on jihād was much broader than previously thought, and that authors interwove a range of different understandings of jihād in their attempts to encourage jihād against the Franks. More importantly, Reinventing Jihad demonstrates that whilst the practice of jihād did not begin in earnest until the middle of the twelfth century, the same cannot be said about jihād ideology: interest in jihād ideology was reinvigorated almost from the moment of the arrival of the Franks"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
The Muslim world in the age of the Crusades, 2213-1043 ; volume 4
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