STRIVING IN THE PATH OF GOD - JIHAD AND MARTYRDOM IN ISLAMIC THOUGHTIn popular and academic literature, jihad is predominantly assumed to refer exclusively to armed combat, and martyrdom in the Islamic context is understood to be invariably of the military kind. This perspective, derived mainly from legal texts, has led to discussions of jihad and martyrdom as concepts with fixed, universal meanings divorced from the socio political circumstances in which they have been deployed through the centuries. Asma Afsaruddin

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An enduring classic work on the etiquette that a Muslim must or should have with regard to handling and reciting the Quran (the Muslim scripture)