Just wars, holy wars, and jihads : Christian, Jewish, and Muslim encounters and exchanges / edited by Sohail H. Hashmi.
Hashmi, Sohail H., 1962-
2012
BL65.W2 J87 2012 (Mapit)
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Title Just wars, holy wars, and jihads : Christian, Jewish, and Muslim encounters and exchanges / edited by Sohail H. Hashmi.
ISBN 9780199755035 paperback
0199755035 paperback
9780199755042 hardcover
0199755043 hardcover
Publication Details New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Language English
Description xvi, 434 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number BL65.W2 J87 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 201/.7273
Summary "Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads explores the development of ideas of morally justified or legitimate war in Western and Islamic civilizations. Historically, these ideas have been grouped under three labels: just war, holy war, and jihad. A large body of literature exists exploring the development of just war and holy war concepts in the West and of jihad in Islam. Yet, to date, no book has investigated in depth the historical interaction between Western notions of just or holy war and Muslim definitions of jihad. This book is a major contribution to the comparative study of the ethics of war and peace in the West and Islam. Its twenty chapters explore two broad questions: 1. What historical evidence exists that Christian and Jewish writers on just war and holy war and Muslim writers on jihad knew of the other tradition? ; 2. What is the evidence in treatises, chronicles, speeches, ballads, and other historical records, or in practice, that either tradition influenced the other?. The book surveys the period from the rise of Islam in the early seventh century to the present day. Part One surveys the impact of the early Islamic conquests upon Byzantine, Syriac, and Muslim thinking on justified war. Part Two probes developments during the Crusades. Part Three focuses on the early modern period in Europe and the Ottoman Empire, followed by analysis of the era of European imperialism in Part Four. Part Five brings the discussion into the present period, with chapters analyzing the impact of international law and terrorism on conceptions of just war and jihad."--Publisher's website.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Hashmi, Sohail H., 1962-
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Religious services for Byzantine soldiers and the possibility of martyrdom: c. 400-c. 1000 / Paul Stephenson
In defense of all houses of worship? Jihad in the context of interfaith relations / Asma Afsaruddin
God's war and His warriors: the first hundred years of Syriac accounts of the Islamic conquests / Michael Philip Penn
Imagining the enemy: southern Italian perceptions of Islam at the time of the First Crusade / Joshua C. Birk
Ibn ʻAsakir and the intensification and reorientation of Sunni jihad ideology in Crusader-era Syria / Suleiman A. Mourad and James E. Lindsay
Angles of influence: jihad and just war in early modern Spain / G. Scott Davis
Religious war in the works of Maimonides: an idea and its transit across the medieval Mediterranean / George R. Wilkes
Martyrdom and modernity: the discourse of holy war in the works of John Foxe and Francis Bacon / Brinda Charry
Ottoman conceptions of war and peace in the classical period / A. Nuri Yurdusev
Islam and Christianity in the works of Gentili, Grotius, and Pufendorf / John Kelsay
Just war and jihad in the French conquest of Algeria / Benjamin Claude Brower
Jihad, hijra, and hajj in West Africa / David Robinson
Jihads and Crusades in Sudan from 1881 to the present / Heather J. Sharkey
The trained triumphant soldiers of the Prophet Muhammad: holy war and holy peace in modern Ottoman history / Mustafa Aksakal
Muslim debates on jihad in British India: the writings of Chiragh ʻAli and Abu al-Aʻla Mawdudi / Omar Khalidi
Jihad and the Geneva Conventions: the impact of international law on Islamic theory / Sohail H. Hashmi
The Jewish law of war: the turn to international law and ethics / Suzanne Last Stone
Fighting to create the just state: apocalypticism in radical Muslim discourse / David Cook
How has the global Salafi terrorist movement affected Western just war thinking? / Martin L. Cook
Conclusion: a look back and a look forward / James Turner Johnson.

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