Fighting the unbeliever: Anjem Choudary, Musharraf Husssain and pre-modern sources on Sūra 9.29, abrogation and jihad
The words ‘religion’ and ‘violence’ have rarely been as closely associated as they are today and many attempts have been made to understand the theological justification for this association. Many interviews have been conducted about how such violence (or opposition to it) is justified within Islam...
| Published in: | Islam and Christian-Muslim relations |
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2010
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Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
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| Further subjects: | B
Holy War
B Third Sacred War B Islam B Violence B Religion B Hermeneutics B Koran |
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| Summary: | The words ‘religion’ and ‘violence’ have rarely been as closely associated as they are today and many attempts have been made to understand the theological justification for this association. Many interviews have been conducted about how such violence (or opposition to it) is justified within Islam in the UK today, and numerous articles and books have engaged with pre-modern sources. However, few studies have combined these two approaches. This article reports relevant parts of two interviews, with Anjem Choudary formerly of al-Muhajiroun and Musharraf Hussain of the Muslim Council of Britain, which focused on how each justified his view on whether jihad involved physical violence, and then focuses on the issue best encapsulating differences between them: the relevance of al-nāsikh wa-al-mansūkh and contexts for revelation of Q 9.29. The article then considers Arabic sources of the first three hijrī centuries, reflecting on how ‘moderate’ and ‘extreme’ viewpoints have arisen, and ends with some observations on the importance of the interaction of modern day and pre-modern historical analysis. |
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| ISSN: | 0959-6410 |
| Contains: | In: Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09596411003687852 |