Jihad, Trumpism, and the Crisis of Liberalism (Robert Wright & Suzanne Schneider)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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The Idea of Jhad
The idea of jhad evolved, and we should say as a formal doctrine its it is not found in the koran. It's after the koran take shape, after the age of mohammed, that you get the evolution of a big body of actual law. So when you get people like osama bin laden just showing up and saying, hey, i've decided i'm this important guy, and i'm in a declare g hod, he's picking up on this innovation of this guy,. what is ta so u t b? I guess basically a detached political identity from geography might be a very interesting place to start.
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