Jihadi War of Ideas

Contents: Preface. 1. Jihad in the Quran, Hadith and Sharia. 2. Jihadist terrorism. 3. Militant Islam, Jihadi War and Al Qaeda. 4. The rise and spread of Islamic fundamentalism. 5. Al-Qaeda and ideas of global Jihad. 6. The changing Jihadi threat to the “Idea of India”. 7. Islamist terrorism, Jihad and the International arena. Bibliography. Index.

In the linguistic sense, the Arabic word “ Jihad” means struggling or striving and applies to any effort exerted by anyone. In this sense, a student struggles and strives to get an education and pass course work, an employee strives to fulfill his/her job and maintain good relations with his/her employer, a politician strives to maintain or increase his popularity with his constituents and so on.