“The monasticism of my community is jihad”: A debate on asceticism, sex, and warfare in early Islam
This article explores Muslim attitudes towards asceticism in the second/eighth and third/ninth centuries by examining the famous Prophetic hadith: “Every community has its monasticism, and the monasticism of my community is ǧihād.” The hadith serves as a lens for assessing several broader phenomena,...
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Brill Academic Publishers
2017
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