PSC 392 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ibn Taymiyyah, Iranian Revolution, Islamic Calendar
28 Aug 2016
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Questions for final exam 2/24/16: explain the concept of jihad according to the quran, citing a few verses. The word jihad means struggle or striving (in the way of god) or to work for a noble cause with determination. The term jihad for muslims has retained its religious and military connotation into modern times. Muslims themselves have disagreed throughout their history about the meaning of the term jihad. In the qur"an it is normally found in the sense of fighting in the path of god; this was used to describe warfare against the enemies of the early muslim community (ummah). Islamic jurists saw jihad in the context of conflict in a world divided between the dar al-islam (territory under. Islamic control) and the dar al-harb (territory of war, which consisted of all lands not under muslim rule). The inhabitants of the territory of war are divided between people of the book (mainly jews and christians) and polytheists.
