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N2  - 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 forced them to convert. Lamin Sanneh argues that this is far from the case. Beyond Jihad examines the origin and evolution of the Muslim African pacifist tradition.
AB  - 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 forced them to convert. Lamin Sanneh argues that this is far from the case. Beyond Jihad examines the origin and evolution of the Muslim African pacifist tradition.
T1  - Beyond jihad :the pacifist tradition in West African Islam /
AU  - Sanneh, Lamin O.,
CN  - Oxford Scholarship Online
CN  - BP64.A38
ID  - 800267
KW  - Islam
KW  - Islam
KW  - Pacifism
SN  - 9780199351640
SN  - 0199351643
SN  - 9780199351626
SN  - 0199351627
TI  - Beyond jihad :the pacifist tradition in West African Islam /
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199351619.001.0001
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199351619.001.0001
ER  -