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[Parution] Marco Demichelis, Violence in Early Islam. Religious Narratives, the Arab Conquests and the Canonization of Jihad, I.B. Tauris, avril 2021

About Violence in Early Islam

The concept of jihad holds a prominent place in Islamic thought and history. Beyond its spiritual meanings, the term has historically been associated with the sweeping Arab-Believers conquests of the 7-8th century BCE. But given advances in our understanding of the historicity and chronology of the Qur’an and early Islamic texts, is it correct to identify jihad and Islam with violent conquest?

In this book, Marco Demichelis explores the history of the concept of jihad in the early proto-Islamic centuries (7-8th). Deploying an interdisciplinary approach which combines the hermeneutical study of the famous ‘Verses of the Sword’ within the Qur’an itself, with historical writing by Islamic chroniclers as well as non-Islamic sources, numismatics, epigraphical and architectural evidence, the book questions the relationship between the religious concept of jihad and the conquests. The book argues that Christian Byzantine Foederati forices who previously fought against the Persians may have had a formative effect on the later emergence of more bellicose rhetoric. In so doing, it calls into question assumptions about warlike attitudes inherent within Islamic doctrine, and reveals a more nuanced and complicated history of religious violence in the pre, proto and early Islamic period.

Table of contents

Preface
Introduction

Part 1
1. The Arabs outside Arabia before Islam
2. Ghazawat and Futuh: From rurality to urbanisation.
3. The religious factor: when did an Islamic identity emerge?
4. Can we still consider the Futuh Islamic?

Part 2
5. Qur’an, Otherness and Jihad
6. Qur’an and militant violence in Chronology
7. The process of Belligerency and the canonisation of Jihad in early Islam

Conclusion

Index
Bibliography

Enki Baptiste

Postdoctorant en histoire médiévale et en islamologie (Université Lumière Lyon 2 - CIHAM UMR 5648), chercheur associé au CEFREPA USR 3141

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Enki Baptiste (11 novembre 2020). [Parution] Marco Demichelis, Violence in Early Islam. Religious Narratives, the Arab Conquests and the Canonization of Jihad, I.B. Tauris, avril 2021. Doc-Ciham. Consulté le 12 février 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/nu22


Enki Baptiste

Postdoctorant en histoire médiévale et en islamologie (Université Lumière Lyon 2 - CIHAM UMR 5648), chercheur associé au CEFREPA USR 3141

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