concept

Jihād

Beliefs & concepts

Striving in the path of God as a named Islamic ethical and legal concept. Not war as bare combat alone, and not ḥajj as pilgrimage rite.

Also known as Jihad

Islam

  • Jihād appears in Islam.

    The Qur’an uses jihād / strive-with-wealth-and-selves speech for struggle in God’s way. Islamic striving speech in that revelation, not a single modern war slogan and not hijra as emigration alone.

    from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Qur’an · M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation)

    M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an (Oxford).