daru-l-harb

Updated: May 26, 2025

In these later years, on the contrary, it is generally recognised by Mahomedans that India under the British rule is not Daru-l-harb, but Daru-l-Islam, or a Mansion of Islamism, in which war on infidels is not incumbent. It may be noted that the decree, recently issued from Mecca, that British territory is Daru-l-Islam, can only refer to India.

John Morrison - New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century: A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments

Significant, as supporting what has been said regarding the absence of anti-British feeling among present-day Mahomedans, is the fact that in the first stages of the Wahabbi movement, both in Eastern and Western Bengal, the duty of war upon infidels on the British and the Hindus in this case was a prominent doctrine of the crusade. In Mahomedan language, India was Daru-l-harb or a Mansion of War.

John Morrison - New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century: A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments