Jihad From Qur`an to Bin Laden
- London Palgrave Macmillan and Co. 2004
- 594p
includes index and biblioraphy
1. Text and meaning Jihad in the Qur`an and the Sunnah....21 Jihad of the Sword: Carrying the Message abroad...........53 Jihad al-Nafs: The spiritual Struggle.......86 2. Contextual Theorists and state Systems Ibn Taymiyah and the defensive Jihad: A response to the Crusades and the Mongol In vasions ..........111 Jihad as state system : The ottoman state ................127 Muhammad Ibn `Abd al-Wahhab and wahhabism..150 Jihad in the period of the Colonial Powers : Islamic Revivalism and politicization of the Masses?.....172 3. Ideological Interpretations Sunni political Jihadists of the Twentieth-Century: Mawdur, hasan al-banna, Qutb........199 The shr`a depiction of Jihad and martyrdom.............224 4. Context and distortion of the Text The crucible: The palestine- Israel dispute and its Consequences..269 Osama bin Laden : Global Jihad as Fifth-Generation warfare...320