Islam at War: A History

230 ISLAM AT WAR or exile. Could this situation be considered anything other than a life spent in constant terror where at any i ...

ISLAM AND JIHAD 231 to avoid paying thejizyaand land taxes. Coexistence between Muslims and Zoroastrians was rarely peaceful, an ...

232 ISLAM AT WAR of 250,000 Armenians in Sasun, Trapezunt, Edessa, Biredjik, Kharput, Niksar, and Wan. Further massacres followe ...

ISLAM AND JIHAD 233 non-Muslims. The Islamic concept of permanent war in the Dar ul-Harb (Land of War) and the inferiority of th ...

234 ISLAM AT WAR The concept of jihad served the early Islamic states well, but only for a time. In a few short years after the ...

Chapter 13 DYING FOR GOD: THE ASSASSINS—PAST AND PRESENT By the eleventh century, a new and unusual state arose in the Arab Empi ...

236 ISLAM AT WAR Seljuqs in Iran. After learning who had perpetrated this attack, the Seljuqs attempted to reduce the Eagle’s Ne ...

DYING FOR GOD 237 Buzurg was succeeded by his son Muhammad I in whose reign the Masyad fortress became the chief seat of the Syr ...

238 ISLAM AT WAR roused from their slumbers and quickly made themselves separate from the main branch of the order. InA.D. 1173 ...

DYING FOR GOD 239 Sinan died inA.D. 1194 and his successor sought out the Crusaders for a new alliance. This was signed with Hen ...

240 ISLAM AT WAR people. After many interviews with them, Yves le Breton wrote to his king, reporting these words of the Old Man ...

DYING FOR GOD 241 because his would be a suicide mission. His mind and heart must be set on a successful kill and not at all on ...

242 ISLAM AT WAR young martyrs. Their parents had willingly given them up for Khomeini’s holy war. If this story is true, and th ...

DYING FOR GOD 243 to be launched in a market in Haifa. He said that when his brother gave him the bomb, his brother “was giving ...

244 ISLAM AT WAR in the names of many of these groups. Fatah, one of the major Palestinian organizations is itself such a term. ...

DYING FOR GOD 245 The goals of Hamas are laid out in their Covenant of the Islamic Re- sistance Movement, issued August 18, 1988 ...

246 ISLAM AT WAR larly Saudi Arabia where Osama bin Laden believes the presence of American troops is a violation of Koranic pro ...

DYING FOR GOD 247 important one. When the old Soviet Empire invaded Afghanistan, the Muslim response was a legitimate call to ji ...

248 ISLAM AT WAR Osama bin Laden’s numerous Sudanese commercial interests included a factory to process goat skins, a constructi ...

DYING FOR GOD 249 [probably a reference to oil], dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people, terrorizing its neighbors, and ...