A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' - Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and - that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not - Allowed in The Koran - 1885

The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád', by Moulavi Gerágh Ali This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885 Author: Moulavi Gerágh Ali Release Date: March 29, 2007 [EBook #20927] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POPULAR 'JIHÁD' *** Produced by Bryan Ness, Aaron Reed and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Pg i] A CRITICAL EXPOSITION OF THE POPULAR "JIHÁD." [Pg ii] A C R I T I C A L E X P O S I T I O N OF THE P O P U L A R " J I H Á D . " SHOWING THAT ALL THE WARS OF MOHAMMAD WERE DEFENSIVE; AND THAT AGGRESSIVE WAR, OR COMPULSORY CONVERSION, IS NOT ALLOWED IN THE KORAN. WITH APPENDICES PROVING THAT THE WORD "JIHAD" DOES NOT EXEGETICALLY MEAN 'WARFARE,' AND THAT SLAVERY IS NOT SANCTIONED BY THE PROPHET OF ISLAM. B Y M O U L A V I G H E R Á G H A L I , Author of "REFORMS UNDER MOSLEM RULE," "HYDERABAD (DECCAN) UNDER SIR SALAR JUNG." C A L C U T T A : T H A C K E R , S P I N K A N D C O . 1885.