Islamic Peace Ethics : Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Contemporary Islamic Thought / Heydar Shadi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shadi, Heydar, Editor.

Contributor:

Shadi, Heydar, editor.

Series:

Studien zur Friedensethik / Studies on Peace Ethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace--Religious aspects--Islam--Congresses.

Peace.

Peace-building--Religious aspects--Islam--Congresses.

Peace-building.

Crisis management--Religious aspects--Islam--Congresses.

Crisis management.

Islam and world politics--Congresses.

Islam and world politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Place of Publication:

Baden-Baden Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG 2017

Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co.- KG, 2017.

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

Proceedings of the International Workshop "Islamic Peace Ethics: Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Contemporary Islamic Thought", organized 15-17 October 2015 by the Institute for Theology and Peace (ITHFI), Hamburg. More than 20 researchers from different countries including Indonesia, Pakistan, Iran, Germany, UK, USA, and Belgium discussed the peace and war in contemporary Islamic thought from different disciplines such as theology, philosophy, religious studies, cultural studies, and political sciences.

Contents:

Introduction

Section I. Methodologies and Theories of Islamic Peace Ethics

II. Jus ad bellum

III. Jus in bello

I. Methodology and Theory

Some Methodological Remarks on Islamic Peace Ethics / Heydar Shadi

Is it Essentialism to Claim that Some Religions Foster Violence –and Some Do Not? / Dirk Ansorge

Discussing Islamic Peace Ethics: Conceptual Considerations of the Normative / Sybille Reinke de Buitrago

Peace and Violence in Islam: Philosophical Issues / Oliver Leaman

Section II. Jus ad bellum

A. Sunni

Violence in Contemporary Indonesian Islamist Scholarship: Habib Rizieq Syihab and ‘enjoining good and forbidding evil’ / Asfa Widiyanto

Citizenship as Inclusion and Exclusion: Arguments against Religious Violence from Contemporary Pakistan / Najia Mukhtar

Blessed Boundaries: the Limits of Sunnah to Legitimize Violence / Charles M. Ramsey

Islamic Views of Peace and Conflict among Russia’s Muslims / Simona E. Merati

B. Shi’ah

A Qur’anic Revision of Offensive War with Emphasis on the Views of the Late Ayatollah Khoei / Yahya Sabbaghchi

The Rhetoric of Power in Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah’s al-Islam wa-mantiq al-quwwa / Bianka Speidlv

C. Sufi

Jawdat Sa‘id and the Muslim Philosophy of Peace / Abdessamad Belhaj

Section III. Jus in bello

Lying in War: Different Ethical Justifications / Seyed Hassan Eslami Ardakani

Short biographies of the authors

The Institute of Theology and Peace (ithf)

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783845283494

3845283491

OCLC:

1030821570

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access