Boys In The Cave Episode 106 - Jihad, Caravan Raids & The Jews of Medina | Professor Joel Hayward
History of Early Islam, Reliability of Seerah, Islamic Polity, Offensive Wars, Hadith, Assassinations, Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf, Tribalism, Treason, Treaties, Abu Sufyan
We explore all this with Professor Joel Hayward
Professor Joel Hayward is a New Zealand/British scholar, writer and poet who currently serves as Professor of Strategic Thought at the National Defense College of the United Arab Emirates. He has earned ijazas in 'Aqidah (Islamic theology) and Sirah (the Prophet's biography).
He has held various academic leadership posts, including Director of the Institute for International and Civil Security at Khalifa University (UAE), Chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (also at Khalifa University), Head of Air Power Studies at King's College London, and Dean of the Royal Air Force College (both UK).
He is the author or editor of fifteen books and monographs and dozens of peer-reviewed articles, mainly in the fields of strategic studies, the ethics of war and conflict, and Islamic and modern western history. His recent books include Warfare in the Qur'an (2012), War is Deceit: An Analysis of a Contentious Hadith on the Morality of Military Deception (2017), and Civilian Immunity in Foundational Islamic Strategic Thought: A Historical Enquiry (2019).
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