The overwhelming majority of classical theologians, jurists, and traditionalists [i.e., specialists in the hadith] . . . understood the obligation of jihad in a military sense.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The overwhelming majority of classical theologians, jurists, and traditionalists [i.e., specialists in the hadith] . . . understood the obligation of jihad in a military sense." in the context of "Bernard Lewis, The Political Language of Islam (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988), p. 72." to mean that wisdom is timeless.