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JIHAD AND WAR: DELVING INTO CONNECTIONS AND DISTINCTIONS IN THE PRIMARY SOURCES OF ISLAM

Author : İsmail ACAR
Number of pages : 220-247

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to explore definitional and hermeneutic connections between jihad and war in the primary sources of Islam, and to shed light at some developments related to later contestations on the subject. To begin with I shall examine the term jihad as an independent concept operating as a singular theory in its own right, then I will relate it to the doctrine of warfare in Islam. By paying a close attention to the foundational framework of jihad, I aim to uncover the extent to which jihad exhibits clear connections or distinctions definitional and theological circumscriptions of war. How do the primary sources of Islam, then, delimit the relationship between these two seemingly transposable notions?

Keywords

jihad, war, jihad-war

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