James Lindsay

Suleiman Mourad

The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology provides an account of the preaching of a revitalized vision of jihad in Crusader-era Syria by Sunni scholars, including Ibn ʿAsākir, as a major propaganda tool of the Counter-Crusade and Sunni revival.

Ibn ʿAsākir of Damascus (1105–1176) and His Age, with an Edition and Translation of Ibn ʿAsākir’s The Forty Hadiths for Inciting Jihad

The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period

Perry Anderson

Wird die Gegenwart kompliziert, hilft es, einen Blick zurück zu werfen. Im Gespräch mit seinem Kollegen Perry Anderson zeichnet der Historiker Suleiman Mourad die Geschichte des Korans und des muslimischen Glaubens nach. Dass hier ein sachkundiger Mediävist und Kenner der politischen und intellektuellen Landschaft der Gegenwart Rede und Antwort steht, ist das große Glück dieses über die Dauer eines Jahres geführten Dialogs. Der Bogen spannt sich von den Anfängen des Korans über Mohammed, die sunnitisch-schiitische Spaltung, die Entwicklung des Dschihad und Reformbestrebungen bis hin zum modernen Islam und seinen heutigen Herausforderungen. "Andersons Fragen sind präzise, prägnant und kraftvoll, Mourads Antworten klug, verständlich und unvoreingenommen. Unentbehrlich!" Le Monde

Das Mosaik des Islam

A comprehensive introduction to the faith and politics of Islam Today, 23 percent of the global population is Muslim, but ignorance and misinformation about Islam persist. In this fascinating and useful book, Perry Anderson interviews the noted scholar of Islam Suleiman Mourad about the Qurʾan and the history of the faith. Mourad elucidates the different stages in Islam's development: the Qurʾan as scripture and the history of its codification; Muhammad and the significance of his Sunna and Hadith; the Sunni-Shiʿi split and the formation of various sects; the development of jihad; the transition to modernity and the challenges of reform; and the complexities of Islam in the modern world. He also looks at Wahhabism from its inception in the eighteenth century to its present-day position as the movement that galvanized modern Salafism and gave rise to militant Islam or jihadism. The Mosaic of Islam reveals both the richness and the fissures of the faith. It speaks of the different voices claiming to represent the religion and spans peaceful groups and manifestations as well as the bloody confrontations that disfigure the Middle East, such as the Saudi intervention in the Yemen and the collapse of Syria and Iraq.

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