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Front Matter / Suleiman A. Mourad and James E. Lindsay -- Ibn ʿAsākir (1105–1176): Life and Career / Suleiman A. Mourad and James E. Lindsay -- Jihad in Early Islamic History: An Overview / Suleiman A. Mourad and James E. Lindsay -- Jihad Preaching in Damascus between the First and Second Crusades / Suleiman A. Mourad and James E. Lindsay -- Ibn ʿAsākir and the Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Twelfth Century / Suleiman A. Mourad and James E. Lindsay -- The Forty Hadiths for Inciting Jihad / Suleiman A. Mourad and James E. Lindsay -- Ibn ʿAsākir’s Forty Hadiths and the Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in Thirteenth-Century Damascus / Suleiman A. Mourad and James E. Lindsay -- The Legacy of the Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology since the Thirteenth Century / Suleiman A. Mourad and James E. Lindsay -- Bibliography / Suleiman A. Mourad and James E. Lindsay -- Indexes / Suleiman A. Mourad and James E. Lindsay.

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The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period examines the important role of Ibn ʿAsākir, including his Forty Hadiths for Inciting Jihad , in the promotion of a renewed jihad ideology in twelfth-century Damascus as part of sultan Nūr al-Dīn’s agenda to revivify Sunnism and fight, under the banner of jihad, Crusader and Muslim opponents. This jihad vision was exclusively centered on selected quranic verses and prophetic hadiths. Ibn ʿAsākir and other Sunni scholars in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Syria departed from the earlier scholarly focus on legal nuances and aversion to invoke jihad in intra-Muslim conflicts. They championed this intensification and reorientation of jihad ideology in mainstream Sunni scholarship, and gave it a lasting legacy.

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