Beyond Jihad

Beyond Jihad

The Pacifist Tradition in West African Islam

Sanneh, Lamin O. (D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity and Professor of History, Yale University)

Oxford University Press Inc

09/2016

376

Dura

Inglês

9780199351619

15 a 20 dias

Over the course of the last 1400 years, Islam has grown from a small band of followers on the Arabian peninsula into a global religion of over a billion believers. How did this happen? The usual answer is that Islam spread by the sword-that believers waged jihad against rival tribes and kingdoms and forced them to convert. Lamin Sanneh argues that this is far from the case.
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