Beyond jihad : the pacifist tradition in West African Islam

Beyond jihad : the pacifist tradition in West African Islam / Lamin O. Sanneh.

Over the course of the last 1400 years, Islam has grown from a small band of followers on the Arabian peninsula into a global religion of over a billion believers. How did this happen? The usual answer is that Islam spread by the sword-that believers waged jihad against rival tribes and kingdoms and...

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Main Author: Sanneh, Lamin O. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Islam > Africa, West.
Islam > Relations.
Pacifism > Religious aspects > Islam.
RELIGION > Islam > General.
Pacifism > Religious aspects > Islam
Interfaith relations
Islam
Islamisierung
Pazifismus
West Africa
Westafrika
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