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Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads : Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Encounters and Exchanges.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (451 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199986330
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Just Wars, Holy Wars, and JihadsDDC classification:
  • 201/.7273
LOC classification:
  • BL65.W2 -- J87 2012eb
Online resources:
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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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.
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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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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.

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