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Book Reviews © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden (2006) NUMEN, Vol. 53 Also available online – www.brill.nl BOOK REVIEWS R ICHARD B ONNEY , Jih ® d. From Qur æ® n to Bin Laden . Foreword by Sheikh Dr. Zaki Badawi — London, New York et al.: Palgrave Macmillan 2004 (XXVI + 594 p.), ISBN 1–4039–3372–3. Without any doubt, jih ® d is the most controversial term in modern Muslim debates regarding violence and propagation of faith in Islam. Westerners use to identify jih ® d with “holy war” for the propagation of Islam while many Muslims argue against by saying it means a great effort on the path of God where military action is not a primary concern but it can also mean religious activities such as prayers and fasting. The book is a work of history which, in a solid attempt at putting all arguments forward, goes through the main lines of argumentation, from the Qur æ® n up to the most recent debates in al-Qaeda circles. Though the book “makes no use of Arabic sources in Arabic, it is a work of synthesis, reliant on the detailed research of others; finally, perhaps worst of all, it unashamedly makes http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Numen Brill

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Brill
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© 2006 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0029-5973
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1568-5276
DOI
10.1163/156852706778942003
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden (2006) NUMEN, Vol. 53 Also available online – www.brill.nl BOOK REVIEWS R ICHARD B ONNEY , Jih ® d. From Qur æ® n to Bin Laden . Foreword by Sheikh Dr. Zaki Badawi — London, New York et al.: Palgrave Macmillan 2004 (XXVI + 594 p.), ISBN 1–4039–3372–3. Without any doubt, jih ® d is the most controversial term in modern Muslim debates regarding violence and propagation of faith in Islam. Westerners use to identify jih ® d with “holy war” for the propagation of Islam while many Muslims argue against by saying it means a great effort on the path of God where military action is not a primary concern but it can also mean religious activities such as prayers and fasting. The book is a work of history which, in a solid attempt at putting all arguments forward, goes through the main lines of argumentation, from the Qur æ® n up to the most recent debates in al-Qaeda circles. Though the book “makes no use of Arabic sources in Arabic, it is a work of synthesis, reliant on the detailed research of others; finally, perhaps worst of all, it unashamedly makes

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