Just wars, holy wars, and jihads : Christian, Jewish, and Muslim encounters and exchanges / edited by Sohail H. Hashmi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hashmi, Sohail H., 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War--Religious aspects.

Just war doctrine.

Jihad.

War--Religious aspects--Christianity.

War--Religious aspects--Judaism.

War--Religious aspects--Islam.

Just war doctrine--Christianity--Religious aspects.

Jihad--Religious aspects--Judaism.

War--Islam--Religious aspects.

War.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 434 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Just wars, holy wars, & jihads

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads explores the development of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish thinking on just war, holy war, and jihad over the past fourteen centuries.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Introduction

PART ONE: THE EARLY ISLAMIC CONQUESTS

1. Religious Services for Byzantine Soldiers and the Possibility of Martyrdom, c. 400-c. 1000

2. In Defense of All Houses of Worship? Jihad in the Context of Interfaith Relations

3. God's War and His Warriors: The First Hundred Years of Syriac Accounts of the Islamic Conquests

PART TWO: THE CRUSADES

4. Imagining the Enemy: Southern Italian Perceptions of Islam at the Time of the First Crusade

5. Ibn 'Asakir and the Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in Crusader-Era Syria

6. Angles of Influence: Jihad and Just War in Early Modern Spain

7. Religious War in the Works of Maimonides: An Idea and Its Transit across the Medieval Mediterranean

PART THREE: GUNPOWDER EMPIRES, CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM

8. Martyrdom and Modernity: The Discourse of Holy War in the Works of John Foxe and Francis Bacon

9. Ottoman Conceptions of War and Peace in the Classical Period

10. Islam and Christianity in the Works of Gentili, Grotius, and Pufendorf

PART FOUR: EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM

11. Just War and Jihad in the French Conquest of Algeria

12. Jihad, Hijra , and Hajj in West Africa

13. Jihads and Crusades in Sudan from 1881 to the Present

14. The Trained Triumphant Soldiers of the Prophet Muhammad: Holy War and Holy Peace in Modern Ottoman History

15. Muslim Debates on Jihad in British India: The Writings of Chiragh 'Ali and Abu al-A'la Mawdudi

PART FIVE: INTERNATIONAL LAW AND OUTLAWS

16. Jihad and the Geneva Conventions: The Impact of International Law on Islamic Theory

17. The Jewish Law of War: The Turn to International Law and Ethics

18. Fighting to Create the Just State: Apocalypticism in Radical Muslim Discourse.

19. How Has the Global Salafi Terrorist Movement Affected Western Just War Thinking?

Conclusion: A Look Back and a Look Forward

Index

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Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-61348-4

9786613925930

0-19-998633-9

OCLC:

773671582