Europe and the Islamic World, 2012, p.27
2012
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Conquest and Its Justifications: Jihad, Crusade, Reconquista
- Ist Teil von
- Europe and the Islamic World, 2012, p.27
- Ort / Verlag
- Princeton University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2012
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Throughout the Middle Ages and well beyond, religion, whether Christian or Muslim, inspired or justified military conquests. Muslims waged jihad against the Christian infidel,Rūm,or theIfranj: Christians called for Crusade against Saracens and for the reconquest of territories fallen to the infidels. But both sides also used the logic and vocabulary of holy war against internal enemies, claiming that victory came from God: for example, in the struggle of the “Orthodox” against “heretics” or “schismatics”; between the Sunni Seljuks and the Fatimid Shiites; between the Byzantines and the Normans; or between the papacy and the Hohenstaufen. Although the
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 0691147051, 9780691147055Titel-ID: cdi_jstor_books_j_ctt1r2f7n_6
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Anthropology, Applied sociology, Behavioral sciences, Caliphs, Christian history, Christian philosophy, Christianity, Churches, Crusades, Doctrinal theology, Ecclesiology, Emperors, Ethnic groups, Ethnography, Ethnology, Ethnoreligious groups, European history, European studies, Government, Government officials, Heads of state, Heresy, Islam, Islamic philosophy, Jihad, Medieval period, Monarchs, Muslims, Political science, Religion, Religious orthodoxy, Sociology, Sociology of religion, Spiritual belief systems, Systematic theology, Theology