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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, D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity and Professor of History, Yale University)
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, D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity and Professor of History, Yale University)
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.
376 pages, 10 illus.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 16, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199351619 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 372 |
| Dimensions | 243 × 167 × 34 mm · 680 g |
| Language | English |