War and peace in islam : the uses and abuses of jihad / edited by HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, Ibrahim Kalin, Mohammad Hashim Kamali.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ghazi bin Muhammad, Prince of Jordan

Kalın, İbrahim.

Kamali, Mohammad Hashim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jihad.

Islam.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 521 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : The Islamic Texts Society, 2013.

Summary:

No word in English evokes more fear and misunderstanding than 'jihad'. To date the books that have appeared on the subject in English by Western scholars have been either openly partisan and polemical or subtly traumatised by so many acts and images of terrorism in the name of jihad and by the historical memory of nearly one thousand four hundred years of confrontation between Islam and Christianity. War and Peace in Islam: The Uses and Abuses of Jihad aims to change this. Written by a number of Islamic religious authorities and Muslim scholars, this work presents the views and teachings of mainstream Sunni and Shi'i Islam on the subject of jihad. It authoritatively presents jihad as it is understood by the majority of the world's 1.7 billion Muslims in the world today, and supports this understanding with extensive detail and scholarship. Though jihad is the central concern of War and Peace in Islam: The Uses and Abuses of Jihad, the range of the essays is not confined exclusively to the study of jihad. The work is divided into three parts: War and Its Practice, Peace and Its Practice, and Beyond Peace: The Practice of Forbearance, Mercy, Compassion and Love. War and Peace in Islam: The Uses and Abuses of Jihad aims to reveal the real meaning of jihad and to rectify many of the misunderstandings that surround both it and Islam's relation to the 'Other'. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I War and Its Practice

Chapter 1 The Qur'an and Combat HE Grand Imam Mahmoud Shaltut / (Translation: Lamya Al-Khraisha) 1

Chapter 2 Warfare in the Qur'an / Professor Joel Hayward Hayward, Professor Joel 28

Chapter 3 Jihad and the Islamic Law of War¹ / Dr Caner Dagli Dagli, Caner, Dr 56

Chapter 4 The Myth of a Militant Islam² / Dr David Dakake Dakake, David, Dr 99

Chapter 5 The Spirit of Jihad³ / Dr Reza Shah-Kazemi Shah-Kazemi, Reza, Dr 132

Chapter 6 A Fatwa on Jihad / HE Shaykh Ali Gomaa Gomaa, HE Shaykh Ali 153

Chapter 7 Body Count: A Comparative Quantitative Study of Mass Killings in History⁴ / Dr Naveed Sheikh Sheikh, Naveed, Dr 165

Part II Peace and Its Practice

Chapter 8 Islam and Peace: A Survey of the Sources of Peace in the Islamic Tradition / Professor Ibrahim Kalin Kalin, Professor Ibrahim 217

Chapter 9 The Concept of Peace/Security (Salm) in Islam / Dr Karim Douglas Crow Crow, Karim Douglas, Dr 250

Chapter 10 Human Dignity from an Islamic Perspective / Professor Mohammad Hashim Kamali Kamali, Professor Mohammad Hashim 269

Chapter 11 'The People of the Book (AM al-Kitab) in the Qur'an / Professor Ismail Albayrak Albayrak, Professor Ismail 282

Chapter 12 Dhimmi and Musta'min: A Juristic and Historical Perspective / Professor Mohammad Hashim Kamali Kamali, Professor Mohammad Hashim 304

Part III Beyond Peace: Forbearance, Mercy, Compassion and Love

Chapter 13 The Uncommonahty of CA Common Word' / Dr Joseph Lumbard Lumbard, Joseph, Dr 317

Chapter 14 Divine Mercy and Love in the Qur'an⁵ / HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad Muhammad, HRH Prince Ghazi bin 348

Chapter 15 Love of Others in the Qur'an⁶ / HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad Muhammad, HRH Prince Ghazi bin 378

Chapter 16 Mercy in the Hadith⁷ / Shaykh Sayyid Hassan Saqqaf Saqqaf, Shaykh Sayyid Hassan, HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad Muhammad, HRH Prince Ghazi bin 392.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1903682835

9781903682838

OCLC:

852236150