morning’s or an evening’s journey
which a slave (person) travels in Allah’s
Cause is better than the world and
whatever is on its surface.’’
[ 27 ]Muslim, no. 4294.
[ 28 ]Bukhari, vol. 4, book 56, no. 2941.
[ 29 ]Bat Ye’or, The Decline of Eastern
Christianity under Islam: From Jihad to
Dhimmitude, Madison, New Jersey:
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
1996, pp. 271–272.
[ 30 ]Ibid., p. 50.
[ 31 ]Quoted in Paul Fregosi, Jihad in the
West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to
the 21st Centuries, Buffalo, New York:
Prometheus Books, 1998, pp. 84–6.
[ 32 ]Quoted in V. S. Naipaul, Among
the Believers: An Islamic Journey, New
York: Vintage Books, 1982, p.103.
