The Legacy Of Jihad, Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims
98: Prometheus Books, 2005. Hardcover. Text in English. 759 pp. Minor rubbing on the covers.
Writing in 1991, the late French theologian and philosopher Jacques Ellul observed, "In a major eneyclopedia, one reads phrases such as: 'Islam expanded in the eighth or ninth centuries...': "This or that country passed into Muslim hands ,,.', But care is taken not to say how Islam expanded. . . . Regarding this expansion, little is said about jihad, And yet it all happened through war!" The Legacy of Jihad provides a comprehensive and meticulously documented corrective to the genre of ahistorical assessments decried by Ellul. This unique, extensive compilation includes Muslim theological and juridical texts, eyewitness historical accounts by both Muslim and non-Muslim chroniclers, and essays by preeminent scholars analyzing militaristic jihad and the ruling conditions imposed upon the non-Muslim peoples conquered by such campaigns. The Legacy of Jihad reveals how, for well over a millennium and across three continents Asia, Africa, and Europe-jihad wars, waged against infidel non-Muslims to expand Islamic dominance, were characterized by massacre, pillage, enslavement, and deportation. Very Good / Very Good. Item #3945
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