Special Issues/Other: November 2002

Jihad and Political Violence

By: Roxanne L. Euben

Description: "Jihad is neither simply a blind and bloody-minded scrabble for temporal power nor solely a door through which to pass into the hereafter. Rather it is a form of political action in which . . . the pursuit of immortality is inextricably linked to a profoundly this-worldly endeavoróthe founding or re-creation of a just community on earth."

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