https://wikiislam.net/index.php?title=Lesser_and_Greater_Jihad&feed=atom&action=historyLesser and Greater Jihad - Revision history2024-03-29T15:24:01ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.39.4https://wikiislam.net/index.php?title=Lesser_and_Greater_Jihad&diff=135166&oldid=prevLightyears at 01:13, 5 April 20222022-04-05T01:13:20Z<p></p>
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</table>Lightyearshttps://wikiislam.net/index.php?title=Lesser_and_Greater_Jihad&diff=134278&oldid=prevIbnPinker at 00:03, 7 January 20222022-01-07T00:03:28Z<p></p>
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</table>IbnPinkerhttps://wikiislam.net/index.php?title=Lesser_and_Greater_Jihad&diff=132556&oldid=prevAsmith: /* Consensus */2021-06-06T06:59:18Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Consensus</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In accordance with the historical evidence, the lesser versus greater jihad hadith and other similar narrations have been shown by Islamic scholars to be, not only weak, but false. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">They serve no purpose </del>in Islamic <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">law or </del>thought, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>contradict sahih hadith and the Qur'an itself. Professor David Cook sums up the consensus which was reached from these scholarly discussions:</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In accordance with the historical evidence, the lesser versus greater jihad hadith and other similar narrations have been shown by Islamic scholars to be, not only weak, but false. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Their place in [[Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence)]] is thus suspect, as is their use </ins>in Islamic thought, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as they </ins>contradict sahih hadith and the Qur'an itself. Professor David Cook sums up the consensus which was reached from these scholarly discussions:</div></td></tr>
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</table>Asmithhttps://wikiislam.net/index.php?title=Lesser_and_Greater_Jihad&diff=132367&oldid=prevAsmith: /* Conclusion */2021-05-29T20:18:43Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Conclusion</span></span></p>
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</table>Asmithhttps://wikiislam.net/index.php?title=Lesser_and_Greater_Jihad&diff=132365&oldid=prevAsmith at 20:16, 29 May 20212021-05-29T20:16:08Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{QualityScore|Lead=1|Structure=3|Content=4|Language=3|References=4}}<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">An overview of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dual concepts of '''lesser and greater jihad''', their history, and relevance are provided by Adam J. Silverstein</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">professor of Islamic studies at </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hebrew University </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Jerusalem.{{Quote|{{citation|title=Islamic History|year=2010|publisher=Oxford University Press|pages=73</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">74|author=Adam J. Silverstein|ISBN=978–0–19–954572–8}}|From the 9th </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">especially </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">10th centuries</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">many Muslims – influenced by quietist trends (e.g. Twelver Shiites), by spiritual ones (Sufis), and by Christian attacks against Islam’s claim </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">be a religion </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">peace – came </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">divide ''jihad'' into two types</del>. The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">first was what they termed </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">‘lesser ''</del>jihad<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''’</del>, which is the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">familiar obligation to spread Islam at </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">expense of other religions</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but which is only </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">be undertaken as </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">defensive measure. The second is </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">‘greater ''jihad</del>''<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">’</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a general obligation on all Muslims actively </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ward off their own evil inclinations</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Though this distinction </del>was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">retroactively attributed to Muhammad himself</del>, it <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is clear from </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">historical record that most rulers (and many Muslims) disagreed with such interpretations. The important point, though, is that they were there </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">be adopted by those who abhor even defensive violence, and – latterly – by Muslim apologists who claim that ''jihad'' has been defensive or an inner struggle all along</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">}}</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{QualityScore|Lead=1|Structure=3|Content=4|Language=3|References=4}}<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Within </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Islamic tradition</ins>, the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">word "jihad" or "struggle" has two specialized meanings: either a personal struggle </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">self</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">improvement </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">following </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">law of Allah</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or as a military struggle or holy war </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">expand the domain </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Islamic political control or </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">defend Islamic territories and believers from infidel aggressors</ins>. The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">former definition, though designated as </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"greater </ins>jihad<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">", in fact stems from the latter definition</ins>, which is the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">earlier, more primordial meaning of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">word in Islamic religious literature. In fact</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this "lesser jihad" seems </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">have been </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fundamental aspect of religious devotion from the earliest times of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Believers</ins>' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">movement|believers</ins>' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">movement]]</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and the earliest material in the Islamic canon refers solely </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this aspect of jihad</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The former definition </ins>was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">highly influenced by Christian polemic against Islam</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which cast </ins>it <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as a "religion of the sword" against the foible of Christianity as preached by Jesus as a religion of "turning </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">other cheek" </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">aggressors</ins>. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It is claimed that this "inner Jihad" essentially refers to all the struggles that a Muslim may go through, in adhering to the religion. For example, a scholarly study of Islam can be an intellectual struggle that some allegedly may refer to as "jihad."</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It is claimed that this "inner Jihad" essentially refers to all the struggles that a Muslim may go through, in adhering to the religion. For example, a scholarly study of Islam can be an intellectual struggle that some allegedly may refer to as "jihad."</div></td></tr>
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</table>Asmithhttps://wikiislam.net/index.php?title=Lesser_and_Greater_Jihad&diff=130909&oldid=prevIbnPinker at 23:24, 24 March 20212021-03-24T23:24:06Z<p></p>
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</table>IbnPinkerhttps://wikiislam.net/index.php?title=Lesser_and_Greater_Jihad&diff=130908&oldid=prevIbnPinker at 23:23, 24 March 20212021-03-24T23:23:33Z<p></p>
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</table>IbnPinkerhttps://wikiislam.net/index.php?title=Lesser_and_Greater_Jihad&diff=130907&oldid=prevIbnPinker at 23:21, 24 March 20212021-03-24T23:21:41Z<p></p>
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</table>IbnPinkerhttps://wikiislam.net/index.php?title=Lesser_and_Greater_Jihad&diff=130906&oldid=prevIbnPinker at 23:20, 24 March 20212021-03-24T23:20:51Z<p></p>
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