Expanded!
Islam and Jihad
- What is Islam?
--- a culture and way of life
--- a governmental system
--- a theology
- Islam's chief texts: Qur'an, Sunnah, and Hadith
- Muhammad
- Muhammad's four major disciples:
--- Abu Bakr
--- Umar bin al-Khattab
--- Uthman bin Affan
--- Ali bin Abi Talib
- Scholars, terrorists, and others
- The Arabian jazeerah
- Quraysh and the Ka'ba
4. Who was Muhammad: pt. 1
from birth to the Hijrah
- Born in Mecca, of the Quraysh tribe
- The first recitation
- Muhammad on the person of Jesus
- "People of the Book"
- From Mecca to Yathrib
5. Who was Muhammad: pt. 2
from Medina to his death
- Muhammad in Yathrib (renamed Medina)
- From patience to jihad
- Muhammad the military tactician
- The spread of Islam
- The conquest of Mecca
- What is the Qur'an, Sunnah and Hadith?
- History of the Qur'an
- Language of the Qur'an
- The fluid nature of the Qur'an
- The Qur'an and the Umm al-Kitab
- About the Qur'an
- Abrogation, or Nasikh wa Mansukh
- Examples of abrogation
- Isn't the Bible full of abrogations like the Qur'an?
- What is needed
8. The principle of al-Taqiyya
- The principle and uses of skillful lying
- At what point is it permissible to start lying?
- The practice of hudna
- The awful short of it all
9. What is "jihad" - in their words?
- What is jihad?
- "What is jihad" in the words of:
--- Muhammad
--- Umar bin al-Khattab
--- Khalid al-Walid
--- Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani
--- Sheik Muhammad bin Abd Al-Rahman Al-'Arifi
--- al-Mawardi
--- al-Ghazali
--- Hidayah of Shaikh Burhanuddin Ali of Marghinan
--- Ibn Khaldun
--- Sheik Ibrahim Mudeiris
--- Sheik Mukhlas
--- Sheik Addallah Basfar
--- Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
--- Mujahedeen Shura Council
--- Abu Bakr Bashier
--- al-Zarqawi
--- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
--- Osama bin Laden
10. Jihad - the first 1,300 years
- Legacy of the "religion of peace"
--- timeline AD 622-191511. Jihad - the last 100 years
- Is there a problem with Islam?
--- timeline AD 1915-2006