"Shăh Wali Allăh departs from the characteristic Sufi position by laying great stress on the state as an agency for the moral reform and ideological guidance of the people through its role in enjoining good and forbidding evil... The establishment of a caliphate he regarded as a collective religious obligation on the Muslim community. ... he defined the caliphate or Islamic state in a comprehensive formulation, which included a strong emphasis on ‘jihăd of the sword’ as one of its most important duties... For Shăh Wali Allăh ‘the most complete of all prescribed codes of law and the most perfect of all revealed religions is the one wherein jihăd is enjoined’. Indeed, he effectively argued that no religion was complete if it did not stipulate and prescribe jihăd. Shăh Wali Allăh sought to achieve the supremacy of Islăm over other religions and the primacy of the Muslim community over non-Muslims... It was not just in theory but also in practice that Shăh Wali Allăh supported ‘jihăd of the sword’... What India needed, in his view, were pious găzis who would pursue jihăd in order to root out polytheism at its core."
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Philosophers from IndiaTheologians from IndiaMuslims from IndiaPeople from New Delhi18th-century Indian philosophers
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Jihād: From Qur’ān to bin Laden by Richard Bonney. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
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Shah Waliullah Dehlawi
Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (born 21 February 1703 Moza Phalat, Delhi, died 20 August 1762 Delhi) was an Islamic scholar, muhaddith reformer, historiographer, bibliographer, theologian, and philosopher.
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