Table of Contents

• Preface to the Third Edition, 2015
• Part I. Jihad in Classical and Modern Islam
• 1. JIHAD, AN INTRODUCTION
• 2. THE PROPHET’S LESSONS ON CONDUCT IN WAR: Ḥadiths on Jihad from the Ṣaḥiḥ of Muslim ibn Ḥajjåj
• 3. EXHORTATIONS TO JIHAD: Passages on Jihad and Martyrdom from Målik’s al-Muwaṭṭa’
• 4. THE LEGAL DOCTRINE OF JIHAD: The Chapter on Jihad from Averroes’ Legal Handbook al-Bidåya
• 5. THE RELIGIOUS AND MORAL DOCTRINE OF JIHAD: Ibn Taymiyya on Jihad
• 6. JIHAD AND WAR PROPAGANDA: The Ottoman Jihad Fatwa of November 11th, 1914
• 7. A MODERNIST INTERPRETATION OF JIHAD: Ma˙m¥d Shalt¥t’s Treatise Koran and Fighting
• 8. THE DOCTRINE OF JIHAD IN MODERN ISLAM
• 9. THE RELEVANCE OF THE JIHAD DOCTRINE IN SADAT’S EGYPT
• 10. JIHAD IN 21st CENTURY Egypt
• Part II. Jihad After 9/11
• 11. THE PRESENT GEOGRAPHY OF JIHAD
• a. Short survey of Jihadi Movements and States after 2005; Shabab,
• Boko Haram, Mali, Taliban; Impact of Arab Spring (Libya, Syria)
• b. Importance of Religion
• c. Why focus on IS
• 12. AL-QA`IDA AND IS
• a. Zawahiri and Zarqawi (Zawahiri’s Letter to Zarqawi)
• b. Idarat al-tawahhush by Naji
• c. Conflict Between al-Qa`ida and ISIS Regarding Rules of Jihad
• 13. THE RISE OF IS
• a. Factors of Success in Iraq and Syria; Foreign Mujahids; Publicity; Videos, Social Media
• b. Caliphate (Selections from the Address of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi), hijra; Building an Islamic State, hisba (Contrast with al-Qaìda) Eschatology, Apocalyps, Violence, Brutality
• 14. IS THEORY AND PRACTICE OF JIHAD
• a. Enemy; Takfir; Treason (Fatwas)
• b. Non-Muslims; dhimmi; (document ISIS dhimma contract)
• c. Defensive or Offensive Jihad
• d. Warfare: Civilians; Slavery (Document)
• e. (Document)
• 15. ANTI-IS POSITIONS
• Anti-Isis Fatwas
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements