Motif
Religion established by the sword
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A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Host Battle and Siege. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
islamic
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) THE KORAN. / PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE / SECTION I. / SECTION II.; lines 2864-2911 confidence: high
The narrator says Mohammed's passiveness was due to lack of power; after assistance from Medina he announced God's permission for defense and later claimed divine leave to attack, destroy idolatry, and establish true faith by the sword.
The passage repeatedly describes the use of sword or force to establish religion and criticizes conversion by the sword.
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