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Heiliger Krieg' Auf der Suche nach einer Typologie

2007, ‚Heiliger Krieg.’ Auf der Suche nach einer Typologie, in: HZ 285 (2007), S. 265-302

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to contextualize the Islamic Djihad in a comparative perspective. In what religious constellation is it possible to sacralize actions of war? What difference does monotheism make? I compare Roman, Israelitic, Germanic acts of sacrificing the ennemy, and then I compare the notion of crusade with the prescriptions of Djihad.