Beyond Jihad —— The Pacifist Tradition in West African Islam

----- 西非伊斯兰教的和平主义传统

ISBN: 9780199351619 出版年：2016 页码：377 Sanneh, Lamin Oxford University Press

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.