Encyclopedia of Islam

dar al-Islam and dar al-harb

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 (d. 1831). Other jurists, 

however, ruled that as long as Muslims were 

secure and allowed to fulfill their religious duties, 

they could accept non-Muslim governments and 

consider themselves to still be in the dar al-Islam.

With the end of the last Muslim empires and 

the rise of new nation-states in the 20th century, 

the concepts of the dar al-Islam and the dar al-harb

have been replaced by international laws, treaties, 

and conventions governing relations between 

states. Nonetheless, they still have their place in 

the Islamic legal heritage, and they are invoked 

from time to time in Muslim political rhetoric.

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