The Art of Jihad

The Art of Jihad
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Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 9781438476384
ISBN-13 : 1438476388
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Book Synopsis The Art of Jihad by : Malik Mufti

Download or read book The Art of Jihad written by Malik Mufti and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now all but forgotten, there exists within medieval Islamic political thought a coherent "realist" tradition analogous to its Western counterpart. In The Art of Jihad, Malik Mufti begins by analyzing contemporary debates on jihad designed to highlight the lacuna occupied by realism in other cultures. He explicates the features of medieval Islamic realism; those it shares with realism everywhere—a focus on power, for example, or the ubiquity of human conflict—but also those features that are distinctive: its insistence on the political centrality of religion, its rejection of scientific certainty, its valorization of hierarchy, and its adherence to empire as the optimal ethico-political framework. These features are fleshed out through the writings of medieval political thinkers such as Ibn al-Muqaffa`, al-Jahiz, and the anonymous author of a seminal military manual, as well as political philosophers such as Ibn Rushd and Ibn Khaldun. Finally, Mufti explores the prospects for a revival of Islamic realism in the context of the political and intellectual upheavals currently besetting the Middle East.


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