Jihad

Jihad in two contexts

1) The domestic contexts as it is thought about in the context of domestic
context in muslim states
2) International context how jihad is thought about
Domestic
- Modernity brings forth a state of mind that religious and religious
fundamentalism are natural reactions to modernity.
- Islam experiences mal adjustment that constitutes a jihad fundamentalism
(what are other forms of fundamentalism)
- Is fundamentalism a product of islam as a religion?
- Is it an intellectual or political contet which brings up fundamentalism in the
modern world?
Presumption of the Jihad
- It is mal-adjusted to a particular feature of modernity that feature is
modernity.
- When we think of muslim fundamentalism we have to dispense with the false
notion of literalism and muslim fundamentalism in the context of religion.
- Literalism was the foundation of Christian fundamentalism
- Islam was not a literalist state
- The vohidct movement the literalist movement they were not literalist at
all they presumed that a literal interpretation was the right one but did not
preclude non-literal interpretations of islam
- Ibin hasum no one believe that mercy has wings
o Non-literal coming from a spanard muslim
- There are figurative references in the quran the star the star when it
decends the quaran when it is handed down.
- Scriptual interpretation is not the sort of foundation of what we come to look
up as muslim fundamentalism its not just scriptural interpretation that leads
to power seizing.
- We must appreciate the magnitude of the fundamental difference between
the basic presumption underlying the modern nation state and that
underlying the nature of the muslim state.
- The Islamic state is the beginning of the problem it is the modern nation
state that serves to islamasize it
o Presumption
The modern nation state assumes a monopoly on law all laws
that are adjudicated outside of the state no one can make the
law.
Justice/equality in the context is manifestified by the uniform
regime of law provided equally across the board.

Conclusion law the exclusive preserve of the state, but the

modern state would be legal monoism one and one only set of
rules applied equally across the board
The pre-modern muslim state exersized no monopoly
Islamic law stood above the law and was not a creation of it it
was opposed to the state because it serves to ensure they didnt
obtain a monopoly
Substate actors acitng on their own made interpretations of the
quran

Today there are 4 recognized schools of law

These schools are founded by individuals not named by
larger products of islam
The history of state formation is a rocky history these
schools function as if they were not effected by that history
prove that theyre not effected by the state