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Edited by Giovanna Calasso (Sapienza University, Rome), and Giuliano Lancioni, (Roma Tre University, Rome), This is the first collection of studies entirely devoted to the terminological pair dār al-islām / dar al-ḥarb, “the abode of Islam” and “the abode of war”, apparently widely known as representative of “the Islamic vision” of the world, but in fact almost unexplored. A team of specialists in different fields of Islamic studies investigates the issue in its historical and conceptual origins as well as in its reception within the different genres of Muslim written production. In contrast to the fixed and permanent categories they are currently identified with, the multifaceted character of these two notions and their shifting meanings is set out through the analysis of a wide range of contexts and sources, from the middle ages up to modern times.Contributors are Francisco Apellániz, Michel Balivet, Giovanna Calasso, Alessandro Cancian, Éric Chaumont, Roberta Denaro, Maribel Fierro, Chiara Formichi, Yohanan Friedmann, Giuliano Lancioni, Yaacov Lev, Nicola Melis, Luis Molina, Antonino Pellitteri, Camille Rhoné-Quer, Francesca Romana Romani, Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti, Roberto Tottoli, Raoul Villano, Eleonora Di Vincenzo and Francesco Zappa. (eds)Biographical noteGiovanna Calasso is full professor of History of Islamic Civilization at Sapienza University, Rome. Her main research interests are historical-religious and cultural issues of Islamic Middle Ages: Islamization and conversion to Islam, tradition and change in Islamic thinking and travel literature.Giuliano Lancioni is full professor of Arabic Language and Literature at Roma Tre University, Rome. His fields of research are history of Arabic linguistic thinking, Arabic formal and corpus linguistics. He co-edited the volume The Word in Arabic (Brill, 2011).ReadershipThe book is addressed to scholars in history of Islamic societies, Islamic law and historiography, area studies, but also, due to the relevance of Islamic law to contemporary debate, in international and comparative law.Table of contentsGiovanna Calasso, Introduction: Concepts, Words, Historical Realities of a “Classical” DichotomySection I. Concepts and TerminologyGiovanna Calasso, Constructing and Deconstructing the Opposition dār al-islām / dār al-ḥarb: Between Sources and StudiesGiuliano Lancioni, The Missing dār: On Collocations in Classical Arabic dictionariesYaacov Lev, The Perception of the Others. Rūm and Franks (Tenth-Twelfth Centuries)Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti, Some Observations on dār al-ḥarb / dār al-islām in the Imami ContextSection II. Early TextsRoberta Denaro, Naming the Enemy’s Land: Definitions of dār al-ḥarb in Ibn al-Mubārak’s Kitāb al-JihādRoberto Tottoli, Dār al-islām / dār al-ḥarb in the Tafsīr by Ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī and in Early TraditionsRaoul Villano, The Qur’anic foundation of the dichotomy dār al-islām / dār al-ḥarb: an unusual hypothesisSection III. Law: theory and practiceÉric Chaumont, Dār al-islām et dār al-ḥarb: Quelques réflexions à propos de la géographie théologico-politique sunnite classique, en regard du Kitāb al-Muhaḏḏab d’Abū Isḥāq al-Šīrāzī (m. 476/1083)Francisco Apellániz, An Unknown Minority Between the dār al-ḥarb and the dār al-IslāmNicola Melis, Some Observations on the Concept of dār al-ʿahd in Ottoman Context (XVI-XVII c.)Section IV. History of specific areasMaribel Fierro and Luis Molina, Some Notes on dār al-ḥarb in Early al-AndalusCamille Rhoné, Les émirs d’Iran nord-oriental face aux steppes turques (IXe-XIe siècle) entre légitimation, confrontation et cohabitationMichel Balivet, Dār al-islām ou bilād al-rūm? Le cas de l’Anatolie turque au Moyen-ÂgeFrancesco Zappa, Une appartenance controversée : trois moments dans le débat autour du statut du bilād al-sūdānSection V. Modern and contemporary developmentsAlessandro Cancian, Faith as Territory: dār al-islām and dār al-ḥarb in Modern Shi’i SufismChiara Formichi, Dār al-islām and Darul Islam: from Political Ideal to Territorial RealityYohanan Friedmann, Dār al-islām and dār al-ḥarb in Modern Indian Muslim ThoughtAntonino Pellitteri, Better barr al-ʿaduww Than dār al-ḥarb: Some Considerations about Eighteenth Century maġribī ChroniclesFrancesca Romana Romani and Eleonora Di Vincenzo, Muḥammad Bayram’s Risāla fī dār al-ḥarb wa-suknāhā: A Modern Reinterpretation of Living in dār al-ḥarbGiuliano Lancioni, Concluding remarks: The terminological array