Privatized Jihad and public order in the pre-Seljuq period: The role of the <i>Mutatawwi‘a</i>

Tor, D. G.

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“…Deborah Tor has found a connection between those gh az ı scholars and leaders of muta _ hawwi L a bands who fought along the Arab-Byzantine frontier, promoted a communal obligation to fight in the jih ad, and emphasized the leadership positions of religious scholars in fighting the jih ad mentioned above and the transference of the caliph's religious authority to the L ulamā' in the early L Abbāsid period, as well as the later decline of the caliph's secular authority. 20 Tor argued that as the 'jih ad state' came to an end, the jih ad continued, but no longer could the state be relied upon as the leader of the jih ad. In fact, for many the caliphs had fallen into abeyance of their duties.…”

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Frontiers and the State in Early Islamic History: Jihād Between Caliphs and Volunteers

Haug

2011

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Jihād and warfare aimed at expanding the political authority of the Muslim caliphate was the primary occupation of the caliphate in its first century. As the state lost focus on the expansion of its frontiers and the proper conduct of jihād, non‐state actors, particularly religious authorities, stepped in to claim authority over frontier warfare. Recent scholarship of the last few decades on the impact of this transference of authority exhibits a trend in the study of early Islamic history of viewing the frontiers as important instigators for major developments that shaped the center of the Islamic world. This article examines recent scholarship on the history of jihād as practiced on the frontiers of the Islamic world and the use of frontier warfare and the proper conduct of jihād as a legitimizing factor for the caliphate and provincial rulers.

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Frontiers and the State in Early Islamic History: Jihād Between Caliphs and Volunteers

Haug

2011

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“… 14 Ambiguities and tensions over the respective roles of rulers and scholars in authorizing jihad have a long history that predates the modern state system (Tor 2005; Haug 2011; Syed 2013, 152–53). …”

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Jihad in a World of Sovereigns: Law, Violence, and Islam in the Bosnia Crisis

Li¹

2016

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This article argues that jihads waged in recent decades by "foreign fighter" volunteers invoking a sense of global Islamic solidarity can be usefully understood as attempts to enact an alternative to the interventions of the "International Community." Drawing from ethnographic and archival research on Arab volunteers who joined the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, this article highlights the challenges and dilemmas facing such jihad fighters as they maneuvered at the edges of diverse legal orders, including international and Islamic law. Jihad fighters appealed to a divine authority above the global nation-state order while at the same time rooting themselves in that order through affiliation with the sovereign and avowedly secular nation-state of Bosnia-Herzegovina. This article demonstrates an innovative approach to law, violence, and Islam that critically situates states and nonstate actors in relation to one another in transnational perspective.Darryl Li is an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School. Thanks are due to Aslı Bâli,

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Early Islamic Imperial Space

Peacock¹

2021

The Limits of Universal Rule

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Privatized Jihad and public order in the pre-Seljuq period: The role of the Mutatawwi‘a

Cited by 13 publications

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Frontiers and the State in Early Islamic History: Jihād Between Caliphs and Volunteers

Frontiers and the State in Early Islamic History: Jihād Between Caliphs and Volunteers

Jihad in a World of Sovereigns: Law, Violence, and Islam in the Bosnia Crisis

Early Islamic Imperial Space

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