Military conflict accompanied the spread of Islam during the Middle Ages. This program reveals the ironies of that union between war and faith: how Islam was adopted rather than marginalized by invading Mongols; how the rise of strict Islamic orthod...
Seen as the spiritual head of the Hezbollah, Sayed Fadlallah - a leading political figure in the Lebanese Islamic Movement - gives his views of Jihad or Holy War, its rules, its origins, and the role of terror in such a war. The program also examine...