The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period: Ibn Askir of Damascus (11051176) and His Age, with an Edition ... Jihad (Islamic History and Civilization)

Contents
List of Maps and Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration
PART ONE. THE INTENSIFICATION AND REORIENTATION OF SUNNI JIHAD IDEOLOGY IN THE CRUSADER PERIOD: IBN 'ASAKIR OF DAMASCUS (1105-1176) AND HIS AGE
Chapter One. Ibn 'Asakir (1105-1176): Life and Career
	1. Life, Education, and Career
	2. Works
Chapter Two. Jihad in Early Islamic History: An Overview
	1. Religion and Warfare
	2. Jihad and Warfare in the Qur'an
	3. Jihad and Warfare in Islamic History before the Crusader Period
Chapter Three. Jihad Preaching in Damascus between the First and Second Crusades
	1. Al-Sulami and His Book of Jihad
	2. The Sunni Damascene Establishment and Jihad Propaganda after al-Sulami
	3. Was Ibn 'Asakir Aware of al-Sulami's Book of Jihad?
Chapter Four. Ibn 'Asakir and the Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Twelfth Century
	1. Ibn 'Asakir and Nur al-Din
	2. Ibn 'Asakir as Propagandist of Jihad
	3. The "Forty Hadiths" Genre
	4. Ibn 'Asakir's Forty Hadiths and the Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology
	5. Ahmad al-Hanafi of Aleppo, al-Wasiti of Iraq, and al-Qadi 'Iyad of Morocco
Chapter Five. The Forty Hadiths for Inciting Jihad
	1. The Manuscript
	2. The Forty Hadiths' Characteristics
	3. Teachers from whom Ibn 'Asakir Derived the Material for his Forty Hadiths
	D. Ibn 'Asakir's Distinctive Vision of Jihad in his Forty Hadiths
	5. Quranic Passages in Ibn 'Asakir's Forty Hadiths
Chapter Six. Ibn 'Asakir's Forty Hadiths and the Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in Thirteenth-Century Damascus
	1. The Colophons (Sama'at) on al-Birzali's Copy of Ibn 'Asakir's Forty Hadiths
	2. What Do the Colophons Tell Us about Sunni Jihad Propaganda in Thirteenth-Century Damascus?
Chapter Seven. The Legacy of the Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology since the Thirteenth Century
	1. Ibn Taymiya
	2. The Early Modern Period
	3. Conclusion
PART TWO. EDITION AND TRANSLATION OF THE FORTY HADITHS FOR INCITING JIHAD (AL-ARBA'UN HADITHAN FI AL-HATHTH 'ALA AL-JIHAD)
Notes on the Arabic Edition
Notes on the English Translation
Text and Translation
Bibliography
	Classical Scholarship
	Modern Scholarship
Index
Index of Qur'anic & Biblical References