Jihad has had a chaotic journey’ - Ayesha Jalal
By Rohit Karir in New Delhi
Ayesha said she had thought of writing a book on jihad much before 9/ 11. “ The concept of jihad is crucial to understanding the issue of faith or imaan ,” she said. “ Because if someone tells you he or she is a Hindu, Sikh or Parsi, it really does not tell you what their faith is. The concept of jihad has shifted to refer to infidel encroachment rather than an ethical struggle to be more human. The word has had a topsy- turvy journey. Its beginnings were in imaan ( faith), but over the centuries, jihad has come to be associated with external sacrifice rather than an inner struggle to understand Islam.”
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