Beyond Jihad

Auteur: Sanneh, Lamin O. (D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity and Professor of History, D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity and Professor of History, Yale University)
Editeur: Oxford University Press Inc
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.
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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.
ISBN / EAN 9780199351619
Auteur Sanneh, Lamin O. (D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity and Professor of History, D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity and Professor of History, Yale University)
Editeur Oxford University Press Inc