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SUMMARY:Debating Issues of War and Peace in the Islamic Tradition
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DESCRIPTION:Professor Asma Afsaruddin\, Indiana University (online)\n\nHo
 st: Dr Tom Woerner-Powell\n\nAbstract: War and peace are universal theme
 s in which Muslim scholars throughout history have taken great interest.
  The term jihad and its derivatives have a great bearing on understandin
 g the concepts of war and peace in Islam and remains one of the most con
 tested topics within Islamic Studies among a wide range of scholars\, as
  well as in non-academic policymaking circles and in the media. This lec
 ture will focus on how jihad and related concepts are treated in the Qur
 ’an and Qur’an commentaries\, hadith\, legal and mystical texts\, from b
 oth the pre-modern and modern periods and contextualize the variety of d
 iscourses that have developed throughout history. More recently in the m
 odern period\, a number of Muslim scholars and activists have been highl
 ighting peacemaking and non-violent resistance to wrongdoing as the most
  important components of jihad as an ethical and moral precept\, which w
 ill receive due attention.\n\nBio: Asma Afsaruddin is Class of 1950 Herm
 an B. Wells Endowed Professor and Professor of Islamic Studies in the De
 partment of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University\
 , Bloomington.  She received her PhD in Arabic and Islamic Studies from 
 Johns Hopkins University and previously taught at Harvard and Notre Dame
  universities.  She is the author and editor of nine books\, including J
 ihad: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press\, 2021)\; Con
 temporary Issues in Islam (Edinburgh University Press\, 2015)\; Striving
  in the Path of God: Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought  (Oxford Uni
 versity Press\, 2013)\, which has been translated into Indonesian and wo
 n the World Book Award in Islamic Studies from the Iranian government (2
 015) and was a runner-up for the British-Kuwaiti Friendship Society Book
  award (2014)\; and The First Muslims: History and Memory (OneWorld Publ
 ications 2008)\, which has been translated into Turkish\, Malay\, and Bo
 snian. She has also published over eighty research articles and book cha
 pters on topics as diverse as Qur’anic hermeneutics\, hadith studies\, i
 nter-faith relations\, war and peace in the Islamic tradition\; Islamic 
 feminisms\, and modern reform movements in Muslim-majority societies. Pr
 ofessor Afsaruddin’s research has been supported by grants from the Harr
 y Frank Guggenheim Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York w
 hich named her a Carnegie Scholar in 2005.  In 2019 she was inducted int
 o the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars in recognition of her academic a
 nd professional accomplishments.  
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