Jihad : Terrorist Strategies Against the West

Contents: Preface. 1. Jihad and the efforts for Islam. 2. Concept and practice of Jihad in Islam. 3. Age of Osama and Jinnah Redux. 4. Legalistic foundation and historic conditioning of Arab. 5. Prophetic Sunna and his involvement. 6. Quran: Traditional reading and its weakness. 7. Armature of Khalqi power and its relations. 8. Hemispherical of Jihad in East. 9. Muslim youth and Islamic movement. 10. Forbidden Afghanistan from Terrorism. 11. Holy land of Islam. 12. Legacy of the colonial era. 13. Relations between Dhimmi people and communities. 14. Significance of Jihad as Non-violence. Bibliography. Index.

"Jihad an Islamic term is a religious duty of Muslims. In Arabic, the word Jihad is a noun meaning "struggle". Jihad appears frequently in the Quran and common usage as the idiomatic expression "striving in the way of Allah". A person engaged in Jihad is called a Mujahid, the plural of Mujahideen. 

A minority among the Sunni scholars sometimes refer to this duty as the sixth pillar of Islam, though it occupies no such official status. In Twelver Shi\'a Islam, however, Jihad is one of the 10 practices of the religion. This book focuses on why and how such a seemingly radical development took place. Basing his hypothesis on evidence from the Qur\'an and early Islamic literary sources, Firestone locates the origin of Islamic holy war and traces its evolution as a response to the changes affecting the new community of Muslims in its transition from ancient Arabian culture to the religious civilization of Islam." (jacket)