Table of Contents
Preface to the Paperback Edition i
Acknowledgments 13
Introductory Quotes 15
A Note on the Cover Art 17
Foreword Ibn Warraq 20
Jihad Conquests and the Imposition of Dhimmitude-A Survey
Jihad Conquests and the Imposition of Dhimmitude-A Survey 24
Jihad in the Qur'an and Hadith
Jihad in the Qur'an 125
Classical and Modern Qur'anic Commentators on Qur'an 9:29 127
Jihad in the Hadith 136
Muslim Theologians and Jurists on Jihad: Classical Writings
Muwatta Malik b. Annas 141
[Untitled] Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani 146
Bidayat al-Mudjtahid Averroes 147
The Muqaddimah Ibn Khaldun 161
Legal War Ibn Qudama 162
al-Siyasa al-shariyya Ibn Tamiyya 165
Kitab al-Kharaj Abu Yusuf 174
Siyar Shaybani 182
The Hidayah$dSheikh Burhanuddin Ali of Marghinan 184
al-Imam Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shaf'i's al-Risala fi us ul al-fiqh Al-Shaf'i 186
al-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah Al-Mawardi 190
Fatawa-iJahandari Ziauddin Barani 196
Kitab al-Wagiz fi fiqh madhab al-imam al-Safi'i Al-Ghazali 199
[Untitled] Sirhindi 200
[Untitled] Shah Wali-Allah 202
Shara'i'u 'l-Islam Al-Hilli 205
Jami'-i 'Abbasi: Yakdawrah-i fiqh-i Muhammad al-Amili 213
Risala-yi Sawa'iq al-Yahud Muhammad Al-Majlisi 216
1915 Ottoman Fatwa Sheikh Shawish 221
[Untitled] Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini 226
Jihad in the Cause of God Sayyid Qutb 230
[Untitled] Yusuf al-Qaradawi 248
Jihad-Overviews from Important Twentieth-Century Scholars
The Jihad or Holy War according to the Malikite School Edmond Fagnan 251
The Holy War according to Ibn Hazm of Cordova Roger Arnaldez 267
The Law of War Clement Huart 282
Jihad W. R. W. Gardner 293
Classification of Persons Nicolas P. Aghnides 301
The Law of War: The Jihad Majid Khadduri 305
Jihad: An Introduction Rudolph Peters 320
War and Peace in Islam Bassam Tibi 326
Jihad and the Ideology of Enslavement John Ralph Willis 343
The Influence of Islam Jacques Ellul 354
Jihad, Seventh Through Eleventh Centuries: Summary Text 368
Jihad in the Near East, Europe, and Asia Minor and on the Indian Subcontinent
Greek Christian and Other Accounts of the Muslim Conquests of the Near East Demetrios Constantelos 383
The Armenian Rebellion of 703 against the Caliphate Aram Ter-Ghevondian 405
The Days of Razzia and Invasion C. E. Dufourcq 419
Muslims Invade India K. S. Lal 433
Jihad under the Turks and Jihad under the Mughals K. S. Lal 456
Certain Phases of the Conquest of the Balkan Peoples by the Turks Dimitar Angelov 462
A Modern Jihad Genocide Andrew G. Bostom 518
Textbook Jihad in Egypt Andrew G. Bostom 525
Jihad Slavery
The Origins of Muslim Slave System K. S. Lal 529
Slave-Taking during Muslim Rule K. S. Lal 535
Enslavement of Hindus by Arab and Turkish Invaders K. S. Lal 549
The Impact of Devshirme on Greek Society Vasiliki Papoulia 555
The Role of Slaves in Fifteenth-Century Turkish Romania M.-M. Alexandrescu-Dersca Bulgaru 566
My Career Redeeming Slaves John Eibner 573
Muslim and Non-Muslim Chronicles and Eyewitness Accounts of Jihad Campaigns
Jihad Campaigns in the Middle East, North Africa, Spain, Asia Minor, Georgia, and Persia-Seventh through Seventeenth Centuries 589
Egypt, Palestine, Tripolitania (640-646)
Iraq
Iraq, Syria, and Palestine
Armenia (642)
Cyprus, the Greek Islands, and Anatolia (649-654)
Cilicia and Cesarea of Cappadocia (650)
Cappadocia, under the Caliphs Sulayman and Umar II (715-720)
Spain and France (793-860)
Anatolia-The Taking of Amorium (838)
Armenia-Under the Caliph al-Mutawakkil (847-861)
Sicily and Italy (835-851 and 884)
Jihad Capture and Pillage of Thessaloniki in 904 CE
Mesopotamia-Causes of the Invasions by the Turks (Eleventh Century)
Mesopotamia-Pillage of Melitene (Malatia) (1057)
Armenia, Anatolia, and Georgia (Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries)
Syria and Palestine (Eleventh Century)
Jihad Destruction of Edessa in 1144-1146 CE
Jihad in North Africa and Spain under the Almohads (Mid-Twelfth Century)
Jihad Conquest of Thessaloniki (1430 CE)
Jihad Conquest of Constantinople (1453 CE)
Jihad Conquest of Methone (Greece) (1499)
Jihad Campaigns in Georgia of Safavid Ruler Shah Tahmasp (d. 1576) (1540, 1546, 1551, and 1553 CE)
Deportation of the Population of Armenia by Shah Abbas I (1604)
Jihad on the Indian Subcontinent-Seventh through Twentieth Centuries 628
Campaigns in Sind (711-712 CE) led by Muhammad bin Qasim
Jihad by Yaqub Ibn Layth against the Hindu Kingdom of Kabul, (870 CE)
Campaigns of Subuktigin of Ghazni (977-997 CE)
Mahmud of Ghazni's Conquest of Thanesar, Kanauj, and Sirsawa, near Saharanpur (1018-1019 CE)
An Almost Contemporary Account of Mahmud's Invasions of India
The Conquest of Somnat Mahmud bin Subuktigin (1025 CE)
The Conquest of Ajmer by Muhammad Ghauri (1192 CE)
Jihad Campaigns of Alauddin Khilji (1296-1316 CE)
Muslim Devastation of Buddhist Temples and Plight of the Buddhist Community in Northern India (Bihar) (Early Thirteenth Century CE)
Jihad Campaigns at the End of the Thirteenth Century and First Three Decades of the Fourteenth Century, from the Hindu Chronicle Kanhadade Prabandha
Brutality of Sultan of Ma'bar (Ghayasuddin) Witnessed by Ibn Battuta (C.1345 CE)
The Jihad Campaigns of Amir Timur (1397-1399 CE)
Jihad Campaigns of Babur (1519-1530 CE)
Jihad against Vijayanagara by Sultan Adil Shahi of Bijapur and His Allies (1565 CE)
Jihad Campaigns of Ahmad Shah Abdali [Durrani] (1757, 1760, and 1761 CE)
Jihad in Southern India (the Malabar District): The Moplah "Rebellion" (1921)
Jihad Slavery in the Sudan-Late Nineteenth Century 660
Ottoman Massacres of the Bulgarians in 1876 664
Jihad Genocide of the Armenians by the Ottoman Turks 667
Two Accounts of the Massacres of 1894-1896
Two Eyewitness Accounts of the Plight of the Armenians during World War I
Towns and Villages Ravaged during the Seljuk-Ottoman Jihad in Asia Minor, Eleventh through Fifteenth Centuries 675
Jihad Slave Raids (Razzias) by the Tatars, Mid-Fifteenth through Late Seventeenth Centuries 679
Muslim Jurists, Theologians, and Historians 682
Non-Muslim Historians, Authors, and Islamic Scholars 689
Major Contributors 692
Bibliography 697
Index of Persons, Peoples, Tribes, and Institutions 723
Index of Places 745