Asma Afsaruddin is Class of 1950 Herman B Wells Endowed Professor and Professor of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author and editor of nine books, including Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know (OUP 2022), The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women (OUP 2023), and The First Muslims: History and Memory (2008). She was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2005 and was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars in 2019.

Asma Afsaruddin's Striving in the Path of God is a signal contribution to the burgeoning literature on jihad.

• Introduction Chapter 1: Striving "for," "in," and "in the path of" God: Qur'anic Imperatives in the Meccan PeriodChapter 2: Fighting in the Path of God: A Religious and Moral Obligation Chapter 3: The Ethics of Fighting, Refraining from Fighting, and PeacemakingChapter 4: Dying in the Path of God: Exegeses of MartyrdomChapter 5: Jihad and Martyrdom Compared in Early and Later Hadith LiteratureChapter 6: Jihad and Martyrdom in Early and Late Treatises on the Merits of Jihad Chapter 7: The Excellences of Patient Forbearance: Counter-Narratives on Striving in the Path of GodChapter 8: Modern and Contemporary Debates on Jihad and Martyrdom I: Political and Militant PerspectivesChapter 9: Modern and Contemporary Debates on Jihad and Martyrdom II: Privileging History, Context, and PolysemyConclusion: Analysis of Texts: A Summation

Asma Afsaruddin is Class of 1950 Herman B Wells Endowed Professor and Professor of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author and editor of nine books, including Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know (OUP 2022), The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women (OUP 2023), and The First Muslims: History and Memory (2008). She was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2005 and was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars in 2019.

Asma Afsaruddin's Striving in the Path of God is a signal contribution to the burgeoning literature on jihad.

• Introduction Chapter 1: Striving "for," "in," and "in the path of" God: Qur'anic Imperatives in the Meccan PeriodChapter 2: Fighting in the Path of God: A Religious and Moral Obligation Chapter 3: The Ethics of Fighting, Refraining from Fighting, and PeacemakingChapter 4: Dying in the Path of God: Exegeses of MartyrdomChapter 5: Jihad and Martyrdom Compared in Early and Later Hadith LiteratureChapter 6: Jihad and Martyrdom in Early and Late Treatises on the Merits of Jihad Chapter 7: The Excellences of Patient Forbearance: Counter-Narratives on Striving in the Path of GodChapter 8: Modern and Contemporary Debates on Jihad and Martyrdom I: Political and Militant PerspectivesChapter 9: Modern and Contemporary Debates on Jihad and Martyrdom II: Privileging History, Context, and PolysemyConclusion: Analysis of Texts: A Summation

Asma Afsaruddin is Class of 1950 Herman B Wells Endowed Professor and Professor of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author and editor of nine books, including Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know (OUP 2022), The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women (OUP 2023), and The First Muslims: History and Memory (2008). She was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2005 and was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars in 2019.

Asma Afsaruddin's Striving in the Path of God is a signal contribution to the burgeoning literature on jihad.

• Introduction Chapter 1: Striving "for," "in," and "in the path of" God: Qur'anic Imperatives in the Meccan PeriodChapter 2: Fighting in the Path of God: A Religious and Moral Obligation Chapter 3: The Ethics of Fighting, Refraining from Fighting, and PeacemakingChapter 4: Dying in the Path of God: Exegeses of MartyrdomChapter 5: Jihad and Martyrdom Compared in Early and Later Hadith LiteratureChapter 6: Jihad and Martyrdom in Early and Late Treatises on the Merits of Jihad Chapter 7: The Excellences of Patient Forbearance: Counter-Narratives on Striving in the Path of GodChapter 8: Modern and Contemporary Debates on Jihad and Martyrdom I: Political and Militant PerspectivesChapter 9: Modern and Contemporary Debates on Jihad and Martyrdom II: Privileging History, Context, and PolysemyConclusion: Analysis of Texts: A Summation