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 (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”)]
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
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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