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Cookie akzeptierenHarry S Neale
Jihad in Premodern Sufi Writings
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- 2016
- Gebunden
- 180 Seiten
- ISBN 9781137567482
This book is the only comprehensive study in a European language that analyzes how Sufi treatises, Qur¿anic commentary, letters, hagiography, and poetry define and depict jihad. Harry S. Neale analyzes Sufi jihad discourse in Arabic and Persian texts composed between the eleventh and seventeenth centuries, providing access to many writings that have hitherto been unavailable in English. Despite the diversity of practice within Sufism that existed throughout the premodern period, Sufi writings consistently promulgated a complementary understanding of jihad as both a spiritual and military endeavor. Neale discusses the disparity between contemporary academic Sufi jihad discourse in European languages, which generally presents Sufis as peaceful mystics,
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