الجهاد في الإسلام : بين التأويل و التوظيف الإيديولوجي في المقاربات القديمة و الخطاب الجهادي المعاصر

الملخص EN

This research examines the definition of the concept of Jihad in two civilizational moments in the Arab-Islamic history: an ancient and modern one.

In approaching the concept of Jihad at the first moment, we will examine the interpretations it was subjected to in terms of the strategies of the political-ideological employment, and decipher the mechanisms of selection, exclusion and camouflage that were meant to preclude other interpretations, whether in the context of the conflict between Islamist sects and factions, or to back the existing political regime in the face of the enemies of the interior and exterior.

Our approach will identify the factors that enabled that employment.

At the second moment, we review the circumstances that propelled some Islamist movements to invoke the concept of Jihad in its violent, armed dimension in the contemporary context.

We will seek to uncover the strategies of this summoning, such as selection and reduction, measuring contemporary facts and events on old facts and events, and bringing into play the battles of the past and its contents and actors within the framework of modern narratives.

To this aim, we clarify the relativism of human ancient interpretations of the concept of Jihad.

On the other hand, we aim to reveal the truth of the modern narratives, and to evince the methods of manipulating the Islamic imagination, such as blocking, diversion and deception the objective of which is to feed cycles of violence.