Information Sciences Letters
Abstract
The issue of defining terrorism raises many problems, as it encounters a number of difficulties due to the lack of agreement on defining its content and the disagreement regarding the statement of what it is and its essence, because terrorism is a broad term that may have more than one meaning for more than one situation, and it is difficult to limit its dimensions and images. This is due to the mixing of the concept of terrorism as a phenomenon that has a specific role in the political conflict or a pattern of political violence with many other forms of political violence such as rebellions, disobedience and coups, in addition to its mixing with other forms of violence such as organized crime, and even ordinary crimes at times. Not to mention the political and ideological differences in the positions of states and the standard adopted in its description, that the concept of terrorism in the institutional sources differs in its meaning from the meaning of the term terrorism in international law, which shows with it the urgent need to find criteria for defining concepts in Islamic political jurisprudence, which must be applied to Acts of armed violence, which may resemble - in one way or another - in its meaning the term terrorism in Western jurisprudence. The study started from the hypothesis that the meaning of terrorism in Islamic jurisprudence differs from that in the Western concept. The study used the comparative approach to put the differences between the two concepts.
Recommended Citation
A. Murshid, Aref; M. S. Alhalalmeh, Alhareth; and A. A. Rahamneh, Ali
(2023)
"The Concept of Terrorism: A Comparative Study Between Islamic and Western Jurisprudence,"
Information Sciences Letters: Vol. 12
:
Iss.
7
, PP -.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.aaru.edu.jo/isl/vol12/iss7/50