Zahiras Jihad

Author : A. E. Pritchard
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475939256
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zahira's Jihad written by A. E. Pritchard and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zahira Athar, a young woman of Baghdad, is unwittingly ensnared in an Islamic extremist plot to assassinate the Vice President of the United States. The assassin, her cousin Fahad Djebbar, uses Zahira to cover his terrorist identity and advance the plot by persuading her to leave Baghdad with him to study in the U.S., he at Georgetown University, and she at the site of the planned assassination, St. Martins College in Maryland. As Zahira pursues studies at St. Martins and the VP's visit approaches, she realizes that the VP's Secret Service team leader, Owen Michelson suspects Fahad is a terrorist and may suspect her as well. Yet in interviews with him, Zahira is deeply attracted to Owen and knows he is equally compelled by her. Torn by her longing for Owen and relentlessly mounting doubts about Fahad, Zahira determines to find the truth about her cousin and if she must, dissuade him from terrorism. Her efforts are savagely thwarted by Amir, Fahad's Iraqi control, who has murdered and stolen a St. Martins student's identity. Amir kidnaps Zahira and forces Fahad, now beginning to reject his terrorist mission, to come to St. Martins and proceed with the assassination. In an explosive climax, the lives of three children and countless civilians hang in the balance, and in spite of college supporters' and Owen's attempts to save her, Zahira must make her jihad alone.

Author : Asma Afsaruddin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190647310
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book JIHAD written by Asma Afsaruddin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word "jihad" is everywhere in the global media. It generally appears in the context of violence waged against the West by militants in or from Muslim-majority societies. This usage overwhelmingly colors popular discourse about Islam and Muslims and it has resulted in highly simplistic,distorted, and ahistorical understandings of the concept of jihad. For most Muslims, jihad refers to the continuous human struggle to promote and implement what is morally good and noble in all walks of life, as well as to resist and prevent what is morally wrong and unjust. This book addresses thegreat need for a discussion of jihad that explores its various dimensions without fear-mongering or sensationalism. Here it is examined from multiple perspectives: scriptural, theological, moral and ethical, legal and socio-political. Asma Afsaruddin looks at the key questions about jihad andprovides concise yet thorough answers. Jihad: What Everyone Needs to KnowRG provides a historically-grounded, scholarly yet accessible treatment of the meanings of jihad from the formative period of Islam until the contemporary period.

Author : Reuven Firestone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190284331
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jihad written by Reuven Firestone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-12-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there exists no evidence to date that the indigenous inhabitants of Arabia knew of holy war prior to Islam, holy war ideas and behaviors appear already among Muslims during the first generation. This book focuses on why and how such a seemingly radical development took place. Basing his hypothesis on evidence from the Qur'an and early Islamic literary sources, Firestone locates the origin of Islamic holy war and traces its evolution as a response to the changes affecting the new community of Muslims in its transition from ancient Arabian culture to the religious civilization of Islam.

Author : Tawfik Hamid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roots of Jihad written by Tawfik Hamid and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Spencer
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780895261007
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Onward Muslim Soldiers written by Robert Spencer and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Jihad Today -- PART ONE: JIHAD NOW Chapter One: Are We Already Fighting A Jihad? How radical Muslims use jihad as a modern-day rallying cry -- Chapter Two: Europe: Jihad in the Making? -- Chapter Three: The Jihad Way of War -- PART TWO: JIHAD THEN: EXPLODING THE MYTHS OF "TOLERANT ISLAM" Chapter Four: Jihad in the Qur'an: Is war the will of Allah? -- Chapter Five: Muhammad in the Field: The wars of the Prophet -- Chapter Six: In the Prophet's Footsteps: Jihad and dhimmitude in early and modern Islam -- Chapter Seven: The Modern Myth of Islamic Tolerance: The fact of modern Islamic intolerance -- Chapter Eight: Jihad in Eclipse and Resurgent -- Chapter Nine: Terrorism: Jihad abused? -- Chapter Ten: Everybody Must Get Stoned: The strange alliance between radical Islam and the post-1960s Left -- Chapter Eleven: How to Fight the War We're In.

Author : Ayesha Jalal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674047365
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Partisans of Allah written by Ayesha Jalal and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on historical, legal, and literary sources, Jalal traces the intellectual itinerary of jihad through several centuries and across the territory connecting the Middle East with South Asia.

Author : Abdul Hamid Siddiqi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jihad in Islam written by Abdul Hamid Siddiqi and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rudolph Peters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781558767225
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jihad written by Rudolph Peters and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : 'Abd al-Qadir as-Sufi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jihad written by 'Abd al-Qadir as-Sufi and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vaḥīduddīn K̲h̲ān̲
Publisher : goodword
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The True Jihad written by Vaḥīduddīn K̲h̲ān̲ and published by goodword. This book was released on 2002 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the teachings of Islam are based on the principle of peace.... It is no exaggeration to say that Islam and violence are contradictory to each other. The concept of Islamic violence is so obviously unfounded that prima facie it stands rejected. The fact that violence is not sustainable in the present world is sufficient indication that violence as a principle is quite alien to the scheme of things in Islam. Islam claims to be an eternal religion and, as such, could never afford to uphold any principle which could not stand up to the test of time. Any attempt to bracket violence with Islam amounts therefore, to casting doubt upon the very eternity of the Islamic religion. Islamic terrorism is a contradiction in terms, much like pacifist terrorism. And the truth of the matter is that, all the teachings of Islam are based directly or indirectly on the principle of peace.