The intensification and reorientation of Sunni jihad ideology in the crusader period: Ibn ʿAsākir of Damascus (1105-1176) and his age, by Suleiman A. Mourad and James

The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period : Ibn ʿAsākir of Damascus (1105-1176) and His Age, with an Edition and Translation of Ibn ʿAsākir´s The Forty Hadiths for Inciting Jihad, by Suleiman A. Mourad and James E. Lindsay (Islamic History and Civilisation, Studies and Texts: 99) (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2013), xiv + 221 pp., ISBN: 978-90-04-23066-8, â¬96.00 / $133.00 (hb) (First paragrahp) Jihād “ striving or fighting “in the path of God„ “ and its aims, legitimation, and practices are topics that in the course of history occupied the minds of Muslims and non-Muslims time and again. The resurgence of jihād since the 1980s has again aroused broad interest in the topic and led to a wave of publications, including studies that deal with the historical aspects of the phenomenon.