"I elaborate the expected results as directly linked with the three main parts in which the ongoing monographic work (the final outcome of this MSCA) is under elaboration.
1. The main proto-Islamic historical and Quranic findings are deeply related with the Abrahamic cultural and religious milieu of near east in the late Ancient age.
This assuption is evidently linked with the first attempt to declare the concept of ""just war"" and ""holy war"" in relation to the framing within Islam of a just warrior with a solid ethical and moral background. The methodological analysis reflects that every religion need time to reach a religious understanding that can play a significant role in a society. Thus, if we can consider a first attempt to develop the figure of a just warrior, 150 years after the death of Muhammad (632 AD), we need to attend a longer period of time to talk about a concept of war holiness in Islam.
2. The Kitāb al-jihād of Ibn-Al-Mubarak reflects the inner spiritual effort of an ascetic warrior in a period of his life in which he fights against the enemy on the borders of Dar al-Islam, the Byzantine empire in northern Syria. It presents a more ascetic and mystical approach, and reflects the early canonization of the ""just war"" in Islam. The same type of approach is also present in the Quran: some verses speak of a much more active and defensive warlike activity. In the majority of the Revelation's verses the term adopted is Qital, which means struggle, but also killing, the meaning of Jihad, which can be spiritual and military at the same time, has been hermeneutically analyzed in the text itself. Although the Qital is very present in the last suras - the chapters of the Qur'an - in relation to its historical chronology, Jihad appears only 35-37 times in the Qur'an, and only in a small part of them does it have an authentic warlike meaning.
3. The third part, which coincides with the conclusions, is majorly linked with a contemporary analysis and its tentative to actualize the above analysis on the ongoing debate on the topic. The moral and ethical warlike basement of the Islamic ""just-holy war"" is completely disappeared, leaving space to a new narrative of religious suprematism that is an inner western innovative narrative within a post-colonial spectrum. The contemporary violence as re-elaborated within Islam in the last 50 years, differently from the common adagio attributed to the Qur'an, the religious traditions as authors as Ibn Taymiyya, al-Qurtubi etc. is based on the western nihilism and supremacist ideology of a new form of religious Nationalism as an updated idea of warlike praxis based on religious ideological perspectives.
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