![]() ![]() ![]() I have attempted to answer these questions by focusing on the commentaries of the Qur’an in Urdu and other exegetical literature. The two main questions which are answered in this book are: what are the major interpretations of jihad in the colonial and contemporary periods in South Asia? And, in what ways are the traditional/ classical Sunni notions of jihad different from those of the modernists (apologists, progressives) as well as radical Islamists? ![]() The main objective of the book is to understand how the concept of jihad is interpreted in South Asia. The book was published by De Gruyter publishers in Berlin in October 2018 but it has not arrived in Pakistan in large numbers so the following summary will enable potential readers to get a brief introduction to the book. The following is a summary of the main ideas of my recently published book entitled Interpretations of Jihad in South Asia: an Intellectual History. ![]()
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