Fictions and artifices

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ID2247661
AuthorsAdam Blitz (Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, London, and a former Fulbright scholar. He writes on cultural heritage and its demise and maintains a blog at http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/author/adam‐blitz/. He is a member of PEN International. Twitter: @blitz_adam., corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume31
Issue6
Pages16-19
Publication date2015-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropology Today (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0268-540X • E-ISSN: 1467-8322
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-8322.12212
OpenAlexW2184197718
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited19

This article is in part a critique of Laura Nader's position on the three jihads (as published in AT 31,4). The author argues that Nader's critique of the privileges afforded to Zionism, specifically the failure to prosecute foreign British-Jewish enlistees who served in the Israel Defence Forces program (Mahal), under the Foreign Enlistment Act of 1870 is misconstrued in Law. It further maintains that Nader's obfuscation of the term jihad as a 'catch all' in the framework of Jewish Christian and Islamic war ethics ('holy war') ignores the independent development and uniqueness of these phenomena which are necessarily historically and substantively distinct. The prevalence of metaphorical language, notably the modern use and abuse of the terms 'jihad' and 'crusade', denigrates the agency of medieval Christians and Muslims at the same time as it exculpates the agency of man today

Islam · Judaism · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Zionism · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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