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Jihad The Trail of Political Islam (French: Jihad: Expansion et Déclin de l"Islamisme [1]) is a book by French author and scholar Gilles Kepel.It was originally published in French in 2000 by Gallimard, with English translations by Anthony F. Roberts from Belknap Press in 2002 [1] and I.B. Tauris in 2006.
The trail was named after Queen Zubaydah, the granddaughter of Caliph Abu Ja'far al-Mansur and wife of Caliph Harun al-Rashid, who played a significant role in its development. [6] She made significant contributions towards the construction of the trail, and alongside her husband, dedicated a considerable amount of their wealth towards the ...
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam [a] (() 14 November 1941 – () 24 November 1989) was a Palestinian-Jordanian Islamist jihadist and theologian.Belonging to the Salafi movement within Sunni Islam, he and his family fled from what had been the Jordanian-annexed West Bank after the 1967 Six-Day War and pursued higher education in Jordan and Egypt before relocating to Saudi Arabia.
Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman (Arabic: عمر عبد الرحمن), (ʾUmar ʾAbd ar-Raḥmān; 3 May 1938 – 18 February 2017), commonly known in the United States as "The Blind Sheikh", was a blind Egyptian Islamist militant who served a life sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Butner near Butner, North Carolina, United States.
The 1977 Hanafi Siege was a terrorist attack, hostage-taking, and standoff in Washington, D.C., lasting from March 9 to March 11, 1977.Three buildings (the District Building, B'nai B'rith headquarters, and Islamic Center of Washington) were seized by twelve Hanafi Movement gunmen, who took 149 hostages. [1]
The community may start in the homeland of Islam but this is by no means "the ultimate objective of the Islamic movement of Jihad." [32] Jihad can not merely be defensive, it must be offensive, [34] and its objective must be to carry Islam "throughout the earth to the whole of mankind". [32]
"Traditional Islam In The Modern World". Anthropos. 85 (1/3). Anthropos Institut: 253–255. ISSN 0257-9774. JSTOR 40462167. Hamès, Constant (1992). "Traditional Islam In The Modern World". Archives de sciences sociales des religions. 37 (80). EHESS: 282–282. JSTOR 30128648. Minault, Gail (1988). "Traditional Islam In The Modern World ...
Ilm Deen, also written as Alimuddin (4 December 1908 – 31 October 1929), was an Indian Muslim carpenter who assassinated a book publisher named Mahashe Rajpal for publishing the book Rangila Rasul, which was derogatory towards the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, by Muslims. [1]