Religious conflict in early Islam: a study of its causes from Quran sunnah perspective

This paper aims to present an historical survey on the conflict between Islam and other religions. It undertakes an analytic textual reading of the concerned Quranic verses and a historical survey of the Prophet’s (pbuh) efforts to resolution of the conflict. This study finds that a multi-dimensiona...

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Main Authors: Gilani, Sayyid Muhammad Yunus, Islam, Tazul
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spelling iium-531862017-01-16T01:11:38Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/53186/ Religious conflict in early Islam: a study of its causes from Quran sunnah perspective Gilani, Sayyid Muhammad Yunus Islam, Tazul BP134 Qur'an This paper aims to present an historical survey on the conflict between Islam and other religions. It undertakes an analytic textual reading of the concerned Quranic verses and a historical survey of the Prophet’s (pbuh) efforts to resolution of the conflict. This study finds that a multi-dimensional causes contributed to the conflict between the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and other religions. For example, Religious roots which was mainly caused by the Christians and Jews’ denial of prophecy of Muhammad (pbuh) after a clear prediction of his prophethood in their religious scriptures. However, politico-economy was another key element of this conflict in the early Islamic state in Madinah. Though this conflict had come to broad daylight in the Islamic era, had a long pre-Islamic root go back to the second and third century CE. Moreover, Jews and Christians had a genuine fear of being defeated by the new emerging Muslim power. Therefore, they had found themselves in conflict so that they could reign their hegemony over the territory. In addition, after a city state was established in Madinah, the Prophet (pbuh) found a demographic presence of Jews and their ally Quraish threatening it peace, security, stability and even assassination of head of the state. Hence, the conflict had become inevitable UM 2014-12-01 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/53186/1/article.pdf Gilani, Sayyid Muhammad Yunus and Islam, Tazul (2014) Religious conflict in early Islam: a study of its causes from Quran sunnah perspective. QURANICA - International Journal of Quranic Research, 6 (2). pp. 1-18. ISSN 2289-5396 http://ejum.fsktm.um.edu.my/ArticleInformation.aspx?ArticleID=1512
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Gilani, Sayyid Muhammad Yunus
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Religious conflict in early Islam: a study of its causes from Quran sunnah perspective
description This paper aims to present an historical survey on the conflict between Islam and other religions. It undertakes an analytic textual reading of the concerned Quranic verses and a historical survey of the Prophet’s (pbuh) efforts to resolution of the conflict. This study finds that a multi-dimensional causes contributed to the conflict between the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and other religions. For example, Religious roots which was mainly caused by the Christians and Jews’ denial of prophecy of Muhammad (pbuh) after a clear prediction of his prophethood in their religious scriptures. However, politico-economy was another key element of this conflict in the early Islamic state in Madinah. Though this conflict had come to broad daylight in the Islamic era, had a long pre-Islamic root go back to the second and third century CE. Moreover, Jews and Christians had a genuine fear of being defeated by the new emerging Muslim power. Therefore, they had found themselves in conflict so that they could reign their hegemony over the territory. In addition, after a city state was established in Madinah, the Prophet (pbuh) found a demographic presence of Jews and their ally Quraish threatening it peace, security, stability and even assassination of head of the state. Hence, the conflict had become inevitable
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author Gilani, Sayyid Muhammad Yunus
Islam, Tazul
author_facet Gilani, Sayyid Muhammad Yunus
Islam, Tazul
author_sort Gilani, Sayyid Muhammad Yunus
title Religious conflict in early Islam: a study of its causes from Quran sunnah perspective
title_short Religious conflict in early Islam: a study of its causes from Quran sunnah perspective
title_full Religious conflict in early Islam: a study of its causes from Quran sunnah perspective
title_fullStr Religious conflict in early Islam: a study of its causes from Quran sunnah perspective
title_full_unstemmed Religious conflict in early Islam: a study of its causes from Quran sunnah perspective
title_sort religious conflict in early islam: a study of its causes from quran sunnah perspective
publisher UM
publishDate 2014
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/53186/
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