TY - BOOK AU - Afsaruddin,Asma TI - Striving in the path of God: jihad and martyrdom in Islamic thought SN - 978-0-19-973093-3 U1 - 278.1 23A PY - 2013/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Jihad KW - Religious life / Islam KW - Martyrdom / Islam N1 - Bibliogr. p. 299-355; Striving "for," "in," and "in the path of" God: Qurʼanic imperatives in the Meccan period -- Fighting in the path of God: a religious and moral obligation i -- The ethics of fighting, refraining from fighting, and peacemaking -- Dying in the path of God: exegeses of martyrdom -- Jihad and martyrdom compared in early and later ḥadith literature -- Jihad and martyrdom in early and late treatises on the merits of jihad -- The excellences of patient forbearance: counter-narratives on striving in the path of God -- Modern and contemporary debates on jihad and martyrdom I: political and militant perspectives -- Modern and contemporary debates on jihad and martyrdom II: privileging history, context, and polysemy -- Conclusion: analysis of texts: a summation ER -