Ayman S. Ibrahim

The Stated Motivations for the Early Islamic Expansion (622-641) (eBook, PDF)

A Critical Revision of Muslims' Traditional Portrayal of the Arab Raids and Conquests

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What motivated the early Islamic conquests? Did the Arabs fight for Allah, or for wealth and dominance? Were the conquerors principally Arabs, or specifically Muslims? Were the Muslim believers motivated by religious zeal to proclaim Islam to the non-Muslims? Consequently, was Islam spread by the sword? This is a question that has crucial implications today.

The Stated Motivations for the Early Islamic Expansion (622-641) extensively analyzes the earliest Arabic Muslim sources to answer these and other questions. It relies on over 400 works, including primary sources written by more than 90 medieval Muslim authors, Sunni, Shiite, Sufi, and Mu'tazilite. It explores how medieval Muslim writers represented the early Arab leaders, and how much we can trust their reports. It concludes with an examination of the Qur'an's commands regarding fighting and armed jihad, and questions what later commentators suggest about fighting the non-Muslims, specifically how radical Muslim interpretations match or violate Islam's sacred scripture.

This is the first scholarly analysis to focus on the stated motivations for the early Islamic expansion in the first two decades of Islam. It is a valuable resource for courses on Muslim history, introduction to Islam, Islamic origins and texts, classical and modern Islamic thought, Muhammad's biography, Islamic Caliphates, Muslim-Christian relations, Jews in the Muslim world, Middle Eastern history, and world history. In the age of ISIS, Qaeda, and Boko Haram, this book reflects on how historiographical accounts can inform today's multi-cultural and multi-religious societies on complex relations, mutual respect, and religious coexistence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781433137617
• Artikelnr.: 56524784

Autorenporträt

Ayman S. Ibrahim, Ph.D., was born and raised in Egypt. He has taught in various countries within the Muslim world, and in the West at undergraduate and graduate levels. He is currently working on his second Ph.D. in the Department of Middle Eastern History at the University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, and is examining conversion to Islam in the earliest Muslim period. In addition, he is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Southern Seminary and Director of the Jenkins Center for the Christian Understanding of Islam. His articles on Islam and Christian-Muslim relations have appeared in the Washington Post, Religion News Services, Colorado Springs Gazette, Louisville Courier-Journal, First Things, Faith Street, Charisma News, Evangelical Interfaith Dialogue Journal, Ethics Daily, among others.

Inhaltsangabe

System of Transliteration - Notes on the Text - Notes on the Text - Introduction - Review of Precedent Literature - Muhammad's Maghazi and Their Stated Motivations: A Critical Revision of Sirat Rasul Allah - The Stated Motivations for the Early Futuh: From Maghazi to Futuh Through the Ridda Wars: A Critical Revision - Jihad and Qital as the Qur'an Sees Them: Exegeting Islam's Scripture - Conclusion.

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"The Stated Motivations for the Early Islamic Expansion (622-641) demonstrates an impressive knowledge of the Muslim medieval and modern literature and came to convincing groundbreaking conclusions in research of early Islam."-Yaron Friedman, University of Haifa, Author of The Nusayri-_Alawis

«I certainly hope that Muslim scholars and apologists will carefully engage with this book.»
(Duane Alexander Miller, Southeastern Theological Review 9/2 2018)