War, peace and international relations in Islam / Yitzhak Reiter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reiter, Yitzhak.

Standardized Title:

Milḥamah, shalom ṿe-yaḥasim benleʼumiyim ba-Islam ben zemanenu. English

Language:

Arabic

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Arab-Israeli conflict (Islamic law).

Fatwas.

Islam and international relations.

Treaties (Islamic law).

Physical Description:

ix, 236 pages ; 23 cm cm

Place of Publication:

Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, [2011]

Summary:

This book examines fatwas (rulings of Islamic law) issued by religious sages and clerics on issues of war and peace, with regard to the actual or future possibility of conducting a peace agreement between Muslim States and Israel. The analysis highlights Islamic law's adaptation to changing political realities in the modern model of international relations, as well as the changing concept of jihad and the current role of political fatwas. The book's contents include discussion of: the shari'a interpretations regarding war and peace in theory and practice * the Hudaybiyya Pact of 628 between the prophet Muhammad and the Quraysh infidels * Egyptian fatwas from 1947 to 1979 regarding peace with Israel * the 1995 debate between the late mufti of Saudi Arabia 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Baz and the popular Islamist scholar Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi over the Oslo Accords * the Hamas hudna concept * the debate between Saudi Arabian muftis and Hezbollah sages over Israel's second war in Lebanon (2006) * a c

Contents:

War and peace in classical Islam

Bridging between shari'a and modern international relations

Debating the Hudaybiyya precedent

Egyptian fatwas 1947-1970

The mufti of Egypt backs the peace accord between Egypt and Israel

The Oslo accords : the debate between al-Qaradawi and Ibn Bāz

Hamas and the question of hudna with Israel

Saudi Arabia and Hezbollah debate Israel's second Lebanon war

A comparative review of the Algerian case : the treaty between the French and Algerian resistance leader 'Abd al-Qadir (1830s).

Notes:

Appendices contain texts of fatwas in Arabic.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781845194710

1845194713

9781845194802

1845194802

OCLC:

707230463