Quranic- Historical Investigation of Soft War Dimensions in the Muslim Community of Early Islam

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Assistant professor of Quran and Hadith science, Ayatollah Borujerdi university

2 Ph. D in history of Islam

10.22081/hiq.2021.70428

Abstract

The presence of Prophets has been constantly along with the diverse challenges and oppositions from military conflict to disunion. This issue has been explicitly considered in the earliest Islamic community so that part of verses of holy Quran has been devoted to its hard and soft dimensions. Soft war is the ability of forming the others’ beliefs, actions and regulating their behaviors with no taking advantage of dictatorship. After the identification of the concept of soft war and the clarification of its dimensions and indexes, this research is to clarify the instances of soft war into the four cultural, social, political and military grounds in the Muslim community of early Islam based on Quranic evidences and historical documents through the descriptive-analytical method.

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