Jihad

Man has always wanted peace: war has never been his aim. Yet wars have alwaysbeen an undeniable fact of life. Human desire for…

The term jihad is perhaps the most contentious Arabic word to enter the Englishlanguage in recent decades. In public discourse it…

‘Pharmakon’ is a dualist word which means remedy or poison, or neither remedy nor poison, and it was used by Jacques Derrida in…

The notion of Jihad in Islamic Law and in the contemporary world has different meanings. Jihad nowadays is regarded by millions…

The Salafi Jihadi movement in Jordan, the beginnings of which can be traced back to the early 1990s, is a group of disparate…

John Buchan (1875–1940) was the director of British Intelligence in the last two years of World War i and a novelist, too. His…

During World War i two camps for Muslim prisoners of war were established in Wünsdorf and Zossen about 50km south of Berlin: the…

In November 1914 the fatwas issued by the Shaykh ül Islam Hayri Efendi, in which Muslims were called upon to take up arms against…

During the period of the jealously guarded absolute power of the cup, from the Bab-ı âli (Sublime Porte) Raid of 23 January 1913…

In his provocative Holy War Made in Germany, the Dutch orientalist Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje maintained that the Ottoman grand…

Discussions on the Ottoman proclamation of the Great Jihad (Cihad-ı Ekber) in World War i usually focus only on its repercussions…

The defeat of Nazi Germany in World War ii brought to an end what Bloch has termed the imperial phase of German history…

Why did the Ottoman empire proclaim Jihad in November 1914 and who was the proclamation’s genuine author? Did the impetus come…

Abstract The word Islam as a verbal form is derived from the infinitive Arabic trilateral root of silm, salamet (peace and…