No Compulsion in Religion: Jawdat Saʿīd (d. 2022) and the Jihād of the Prophets

Abstract Freedom of belief and of conscience is well attested in the Qurʾan by the many verses that exhort to tolerance towards "others", among which Q. 2:256: 'There is no compulsion in religion'. In contemporary Islam, some intellectuals have endeavoured to reaffirm this princi...

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Published in:Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence 2024-08, Vol.2 (2), p.186-212
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