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Dār al-Islām wa dār al-ḥarb
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Dār al-Islām wa dār al-ḥarb (lit. ‘the abode of Islam and the abode of war’) a term in Islamic jurisprudence that is used to demarcate the boundaries of Islamic territories, in order to determine the laws which are effective in any given region. This notion is thought to be one of the oldest political distinctions in the Islamic law of governance and virtually all the Islamic legal schools discuss it. However, the term was not conceived in relation to the modern notions of the nation state and stable political boundaries; on the contrary, the entire Muslim
umma is treated as a single integ…
Source:
Encyclopaedia Islamica
Date:
2021-06-17
