Toward Understanding Muhammad: Some Issues in Peace and Violence

Farooq, Mohammad

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Toward Understanding Muhammad: Some Issues in Peace and Violence

Mohammad Omar Farooq

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August 1, 2001

Monthly Message International, Vol. 27, pp. 15-19, 2002

Abstract:
As a religion, is Islam peaceful or violent? What is the legacy of the Prophet Muhammad, historically and from the Qur'anic perspective? In this paper it is argued that, without properly defining violence, labeling Islam and the legacy of the Prophet Muhammad as either peaceful or violent might be a simplistic reductionism.

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Keywords: Islam, Muhammad, war, jihad, violence, peace, dar al-harb, dar al-islam, Tagore, Nazrul

JEL Classification: Z00

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Date posted: February 12, 2011

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Farooq, Mohammad Omar, Toward Understanding Muhammad: Some Issues in Peace and Violence (August 1, 2001). Monthly Message International, Vol. 27, pp. 15-19, 2002. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1760004

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