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This Book seeks to address popular misconceptions regarding the Islam concept of jihad. The book firmly establishes that the ideology of violence in the name of Islam as articulated by various terrorist groups is a crass misinterpretation of the Islamic scriptures. Nomani’s work verifies the essential altruism that Islam espouses. It studies, at length, the Prophet’s teach This Book seeks to address popular misconceptions regarding the Islam concept of jihad. The book firmly establishes that the ideology of violence in the name of Islam as articulated by various terrorist groups is a crass misinterpretation of the Islamic scriptures. Nomani’s work verifies the essential altruism that Islam espouses. It studies, at length, the Prophet’s teachings on multifarious issues such as war, peace, jihad, inter-state relations and relations between Muslim and others, and, in the process, establishes that Islam, if properly interpreted, has no room for terrorism. While translating Nomani’s work from Urdu into English,, Yoginder Sikand has maintained the spirit of the original work.

This Book seeks to address popular misconceptions regarding the Islam concept of jihad. The book firmly establishes that the ideology of violence in the name of Islam as articulated by various terrorist groups is a crass misinterpretation of the Islamic scriptures. Nomani’s work verifies the essential altruism that Islam espouses. It studies, at length, the Prophet’s teach This Book seeks to address popular misconceptions regarding the Islam concept of jihad. The book firmly establishes that the ideology of violence in the name of Islam as articulated by various terrorist groups is a crass misinterpretation of the Islamic scriptures. Nomani’s work...  Read More