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Key concept of contemporary Islam politics, the ǧihād has aspects both bellicose and spiritual which gave rise to a learned study by Alfred Morabia, for a long time authority on the subject. Morabia concludes his study of the ǧihād of the first four centuries by superposing comprehension and the predominance of the offensive. His study includes the thinking of al-Gazāli (m. 505/1111), but only indirectly, through Laoust’s book. Emmanuel Pisani proposes checking if the constants pinpointed by Morabia are to be found in the great revitaliser of Islam. He also shows how al-Ġazālī, while not abandoning the warlike dimension of ǧihād, founds and justifies the supremacy of its spiritual dimension.