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Post by mellomusings on Feb 8, 2020 14:01:48 GMT -5
I recently purchased Jihad Of The Pen a collection of writings from four major Sufi scholars from West Africa from the 18th to the early 20th century such as the founder of the Sokoto Caliphate Usman Dan Fodio. I'm still in the process of reading it but I'm willing to make further postings about it for those interested.
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Post by zarahan on Feb 10, 2020 20:32:27 GMT -5
Can you post some interesting excerpts? WHy is it the Jihad of the Pen for example given that Dan Fodio waged a lot of war?
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Post by mellomusings on Feb 11, 2020 8:44:50 GMT -5
Can you post some interesting excerpts? WHy is it the Jihad of the Pen for example given that Dan Fodio waged a lot of war? Right now I plan on investing in a portable digital book scanner and a notebook so I'll be posting excerpts from the book itself at a later date, I made this post to see if it would garner any attention before I decided to do an in depth analysis of the book. But to answer your question based off the little information I possess of Islam itself os that Jihad is waged within two forms that of the "sword" and that of the "pen", and initially Usman Dan Fodio waged Jihad of The Pen against the elites of Gobir and then eventually Of The Sword due to a number of injustices against the Shaykh himself, his community, the general populous, and the wrongful enslavement of fellow Muslims although Usman himself never actually went to war himself.
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