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ANDY BOSTOM: ISLAMIC LAW SCHOLAR PAR EXCELLENCE ON ISLAM’S ETERNAL JIHAD TO IMPOSE A CALIPHATE…….

 

Once again, an excellent find by Andy Bostom.

Emile Tyan (d. 1977), Islamic Law Scholar Par Excellence, on Islam’s Eternal Jihad to Impose a Caliphate

January 9th, 2014 (42 seconds ago) by Andrew Bostom | 

Emile Tyan

Emile Tyan (1901-1977) studied law at St. Joseph University in Beirut, and received a doctorate in 1926 from the Faculty of Law at Lyon for a treatise on Islamic law. He became a professor of law in Beirut, and a politician, serving as a Lebanese minister of justice. Tyan was a major scholar of the Caliphate system noted, for his monumental works Le califat en regime sultanien (1956), andSultanat et califat (1956). He also wrote a pellucid, remarkably compendious and unapologetic analysis of jihad for the venerable Encyclopaedia of Islam.

Tyan on the establishment of Islam’s totalitarian Caliphate system by jihad, and the nature of  the uniquely Islamic institution of jihad, itself:

. . . [O]ne of the basic principles of Islam is that it must be extended to the whole world by conversion or at the least by submission to Islamic authority. The caliph has an obligation to promote and fulfill this univer­salism, if necessary by the force of arms. This is the meaning of holy war or jihad. From which it follows that Islamic sovereignty is at least potentially universal.

[from, Recueil de la Société Jean Bodin, V. 20, 1970, pp 503ff. (English transla­tion by Nidra Poller, as “The monocratic system in Sunni Islam”)]

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  1. For some reason (I am hopelessly hi-tech challenged) & cannot directly view Andy Bostom’s website. Either my IP is banned for some reason, or my cranky systems security software won’t let me. Either way, I thought this may be of interest to him and your readers as it directly relates to the historic treatment of Jews under Islam’s boot.
    I receive regular updates from a site called “Israel’s History – a Picture a Day (Beta)”.

    This morning’s e-mail titled The Ancient Synagogues of Jerusalem, Destroyed in 1948 The pictures from the University of California – Riverside Archives

    “William H. Seward, who served as President Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of state, visited Jerusalem in 1859 and 1870. He wrote a travelogue after his second trip, and he described attending Friday night services at the “Wailing Wall” and in one of the two impressive synagogues. Seward’s description appears below.
    Avraham Shlomo Zalman Hatzoref arrived in Eretz Yisrael 200 years ago and was responsible for building the Hurva synagogue. Ashkenazic Jews had been banned from the Old City in the early 19th century after defaulting on a loan. Hatzoref, a student of the Gaon of Vilna and a builder in Jerusalem, arranged for the cancellation of the Ashkenazi community’s large debt to local Arabs. In anger, local Arabs killed him in 1851. (Hatzoref is recognized by the State of Israel as the first victim of modern Arab terrorism.). The two prominent synagogue domes shared the panoramic view of Jerusalem with the domes of the Dome of the Rock and al Aqsa Mosque for almost 80 years. In the course of the 1948 war, the Jordanian army blew up both buildings and destroyed the Jewish Quarter of the Old City.
    We present below interior pictures of the two synagogues from the UC-R and Library of Congress collections.. .”

    continued:

    “Avraham Shlomo Zalman Hatzoref arrived in Eretz Yisrael 200 years ago and was responsible for building the Hurva synagogue. Ashkenazic Jews had been banned from the Old City in the early 19th century after defaulting on a loan. Hatzoref, a student of the Gaon of Vilna and a builder in Jerusalem, arranged for the cancellation of the Ashkenazi community’s large debt to local Arabs. In anger, local Arabs killed him in 1851. (Hatzoref is recognized by the State of Israel as the first victim of modern Arab terrorism.)

    Seward’s description of this synagogue can be read either at the link above or directly from the online book via questia William H. Sewar’s Travels Around The World, pg. 654

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