The Intensification and reorientation of Sunni jihad ideology in the crusader period : Ibn Asakir of Damascus (1105-1176) and his age, with an edition and translation of Ibn Asakir's The forty hadiths for inciting jihad / / Suleiman A. Mourad, James E. Lindsay.

• Author: Mourad, Suleiman.
• TeilnehmendeR: Lindsay, James.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic history and civilization; Islamic History and Civilization 99.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Front Matter /; Ibn ʿAsākir (1105–1176): Life and Career /; Jihad in Early Islamic History: An Overview /; Jihad Preaching in Damascus between the First and Second Crusades /; Ibn ʿAsākir and the Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Twelfth Century /; The Forty Hadiths for Inciting Jihad /; Ibn ʿAsākir’s Forty Hadiths and the Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in Thirteenth-Century Damascus /; The Legacy of the Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology since the Thirteenth Century /; Bibliography /; Indexes /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1283939703; 9004242791
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Suleiman A. Mourad, James E. Lindsay.

The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period examines the important role of Ibn ʿAsākir, including his Forty Hadiths for Inciting Jihad , in the promotion of a renewed jihad ideology in twelfth-century Damascus as part of sultan Nūr al-Dīn’s agenda to revivify Sunnism and fight, under the banner of jihad, Crusader and Muslim opponents. This jihad vision was exclusively centered on selected quranic verses and prophetic hadiths. Ibn ʿAsākir and other Sunni scholars in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Syria departed from the earlier scholarly focus on legal nuances and aversion to invoke jihad in intra-Muslim conflicts. They championed this intensification and reorientation of jihad ideology in mainstream Sunni scholarship, and gave it a lasting legacy.