The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period - Ibn ʿasākir of Damascus (1105-1176) and His Age, with an Edition and Translation of Ibn ʿasākir's the Forty Hadiths for Inciting Jihad

The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology provides an account of the preaching of a revitalized vision of jihad in Crusader-era Syria by Sunni scholars, including Ibn ʿAsākir, as a major propaganda tool of the Counter-Crusade and Sunni revival.

About the author

Suleiman A. Mourad, Ph.D. (2004), is Professor of Religion at Smith College. His publications include Jerusalem: Idea and Reality (Routledge, 2008); Early Islam between Myth and History (Brill, 2005), and Sīrat al-sayyid al-Masīḥ li-Ibn ʿAsākir al-Dimashqī (Dār al-Shurūq, 1996).

James E. Lindsay, Ph.D. (1994), is Associate Professor of History at Colorado State University. His publications include Historical Dimensions of Islam (Darwin Press, 2009); Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World (Greenwood, 2005); and Ibn ʿAsākir and Early Islamic History (Darwin Press, 2001).

Product details

• Authors: James Lindsay, Suleiman Mourad
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.12.2012
• EAN: 9789004230668
• ISBN: 978-90-04-23066-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 241 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 518 g
• Series: Islamic History and Civilizati
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous