Jihad and crusade differ in scriptural mandate and scope

Evidence

The jiha¯d was a sacred mission enjoined by scripture and incorporated in the holy law, to continue until all the world was open to the light of Islam. The crusade was a human enterprise, not enjoined—some might rather say forbidden—by Christian scripture, and undertaken for a limited purpose, to defend, or, where lost, to recover, Christian territories. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 677 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Crusade and jihad shared core doctrinal assumptions about religious tolerance and authority — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1823; Jihad and crusade differed fundamentally in religious warrant and scope. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 677

Broader Connections

• Jihad and crusade differed fundamentally in religious warrant and scope. #corroborates (0.95) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 677