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041			_aEnglish
082			_a297.72 _bDEM
100			_aDemichelis, Marco
245			_aViolence in Early Islam: _bReligious Narratives, the Arab Conquests and the Canonization of Jihad /
260			_aLondon : _bI.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, _c2021.
300			_a272 p. : _c9 x 6 inches
505			_tCover Halftitle Page Title Page Dedication Page Contents Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1 1 The Arabs outside Arabia and before Islām 2 Ghazawāt and Futūḥ 3 The religious factor: When did an Islamic identity emerge? 4 Can we still consider the Futūḥ Islamic? Part 2 5 Qur’ān, otherness and Jihād 6 The Qur’ān and militant violence in chronology 7 The evolutionary process of belligerency and the canonization of Jihād in early Islām Conclusions Notes Bibliography Appendix Index Index of Qur’anic Passages Imprint
520			_aThe concept of jihad holds a prominent place in Islamic thought and history. Beyond its spiritual meanings, the term has historically been associated with the sweeping Arab-Believers conquests of the 7-8th century BCE. But given advances in our understanding of the historicity and chronology of the Qur'an and early Islamic texts, is it correct to identify jihad and Islam with violent conquest? In this book, Marco Demichelis explores the history of the concept of jihad in the early proto-Islamic centuries (7-8th). Deploying an interdisciplinary approach which combines the hermeneutical study of the famous 'Verses of the Sword' within the Qur'an itself, with historical writing by Islamic chroniclers as well as non-Islamic sources, numismatics, epigraphical and architectural evidence, the book questions the relationship between the religious concept of jihad and the conquests. The book argues that Christian Byzantine Foederati forices who previously fought against the Persians may have had a formative effect on the later emergence of more bellicose rhetoric. In so doing, it calls into question assumptions about warlike attitudes inherent within Islamic doctrine, and reveals a more nuanced and complicated history of religious violence in the pre, proto and early Islamic period.
650			_aIslam—History
650			_aJihad—History
650			_aViolence—Religious aspects—Islam
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