Dar al-Harb

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Dar al-Harb is a classical Islamic jurisprudential term denoting territories outside Muslim rule where Islamic law does not prevail and with which relations may be characterized by potential or actual conflict.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Islamic jurisprudential concept
classical Islamic legal category
fiqh term
associatedWith actual conflict with Muslim polity
potential conflict with Muslim polity
contrastedWith Dar al-Ahd
Dar al-Islam
Dar al-Sulh
denotes territories outside Muslim political rule
territories where Islamic law does not prevail
developedIn classical Sunni legal schools
discussedBy Hanafi school
surface form: Hanafi jurists

Hanbali jurists
Maliki jurists
Shafi'i jurists
etymology Arabic word dar meaning abode or domain
Arabic word harb meaning war
hasAlternativeName abode of war in Islamic law
hasAlternativeTransliteration Dar al-Harb self-link
hasComponentConcept jihad (in its legal sense)
Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh)
surface form: siyar (Islamic law of nations)
hasDoctrinalBasisIn analogical reasoning (qiyas)
classical interpretations of hadith
classical interpretations of the Qur'an
juristic consensus (ijma) in some schools
hasLanguage Arabic
hasMeaning abode of war
influenced classical Islamic discourse on war and peace
pre-modern Muslim statecraft
influencedBy early Islamic political realities
isPartOf binary division of world into Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harb
legalImplication governs permissibility of certain contracts with non-Muslims
governs rules of safe-conduct (aman)
governs treatment of enemy combatants in classical law
regulates legal status of non-Muslim territories
rules of peace and truces with non-Muslim polities
rules of war in Islamic law
relatedTo Muslim–non-Muslim relations
rules of trade with non-Muslim territories
rules of travel to non-Muslim territories
status of Muslims residing outside Muslim rule
sometimesCriticizedFor binary view of world order
sometimesReinterpretedAs purely historical category
subjectOf contemporary Islamic legal debates
modern scholarly reassessment
timePeriod formulated in early centuries of Islam
usedIn Islamic jurisprudence
classical Islamic international law

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Dar al-Islam contrastedWith Dar al-Harb
Dar al-Harb hasAlternativeTransliteration Dar al-Harb self-link
Islamic world hasConcept Dar al-Harb
Dar al-Islam hasConceptualOpposite Dar al-Harb