She presents, analyzes, and discusses the manifold ways in which Muslim scholars, intellectuals, and activists who are engaged in the discourse on Muslim in the West revisit and reinterpret the traditional division of the world into
dar al-islam and dar al-harb in the light of current geopolitical and demographic realities.
Despite the differences in their methodology, Ibn Fudi and Boko Haram employed similar discourses to legitimize their respective pre-colonial jihad against the Hausa rulers and the contemporary jihad against the secular leaders of Nigeria, with particular respect to the theological discourses of hijrah, Dar al-Kufr,
Dar al-Islam, and al-wala' wa-l-bara'.
dar al-Islam (abode of Islam) and dar al-harb (abode of war).
"France is gripped by an irrational and deaf hatred against Islam and Muslims that pushed it to the head of the coalition against the caliphate,"
Dar al-Islam wrote last year, referring to the territory controlled by Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.
As a civilization and a religion, Islam envisions the optimal world order very differently -- as a caliphate, in which faith and government are united and peace prevails throughout the
Dar al-Islam, or house of Islam.
Hence, instead of simply fiqh of minority, a cosmopolitan fiqh that resonates with all Muslims taking abode in dAr al-amr (abode of solace) should logically be distinctive from what actually manifest in
dAr al-islAm (abode of Islam)
While the financial duties imposed on non-Muslims are al Jizyah - (levied on persons/ poll tax), al Kharaj (on the ground), and al 'Ushor (means one-tenth) customs duties levied on domestic and foreign trade if transmitted from one place to another in
Dar al-Islam (house/abode of Islam) [7].
One remarkable feature of the new scene is the dissolution of old geographical boundaries: the pursuit of Islamic sciences is no longer limited to the traditional lands of Islam;
dar al-Islam has expanded to encompass the entire globe.
The situation in Turkey reflects processes developing in
Dar al-Islam, director of the Armenian Centre for National
The Islamic West of
Dar al-Islam will certainly have an impact upon Islamic and non-Islamic South Asia.
The draft, in the tradition of Sudanese precedents, begins with a series of definitions: "Sudan is a united Islamic state that exercises sovereignty over all the regions within its territory, and where the dictates of
Dar al-Islam apply"; "Islam is the religion of the state, a faith, a path and a way of life"; "Arabic is the official language of the state"; "Sudan is part of the Moslem Umma and a member of regional and international organisations".
The two most important are
Dar Al-Islam (house of Islam) where a Muslim ruler is present and the shari'a is upheld, and Dar Al-Harb (house of war).
On one side is the
dar al-Islam, literally the "realm of submission," the parts of the world governed by Sharia, Islamic law as they interpret it.